> never really bought into the efficiency claims Macros, dude. It's a bit annoying to become disciplined in text structure/regularity to have macros work flaw

> never really bought into the efficiency claims Macros, dude. It's a bit annoying to become disciplined in text structure/regularity to have macros work flawlessly, but it's a bliss afterwards. And then... recursive macros. (I know Emacs has better macros but vim macros are way easier and fun for everyday use).