For me it's been a matter of practice, and forcing myself to use macros for things even when I was too slow with them to justify it in the moment. It pays off e

For me it's been a matter of practice, and forcing myself to use macros for things even when I was too slow with them to justify it in the moment. It pays off eventually and you can get a nice facility with it. I also like using :g/^/norm $normal_commands to apply anonymous macros across all lines. It works with visual selections too: :'<,'>g/^/norm $normal_commands And naturally you can replace the ^ with any regex to selectively apply the macro to only lines that match!