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 ===== Text Editor =====
 Vim and Neovim all the way. I wrote my college application essay, and programmed my thesis application, all in Vim and Neovim.Esc:wq
+==== Macros in Vim ====
+Place yourself in the following scenario. You have a this .csv style line:\\
+<code>2025-03-20,Lawrence of Arabia,1962,https://boxd.it/2wRE</code>\\
+But, you need to format it to look like this:
+<code>* **2025-03-20** - ''[[https://boxd.it/2wRE|Lawrence of Arabia]]'' - (1962)</code>\\
+No problem right? It should only take around 30 seconds in a regular text editor (I tried it myself). Now image this, you have to do this [[movies#List of Movies I Have Watched|over a hundred times]]. Now, it seems like it would be a problem.
+Now yes, you could just ask ChatGPT to do it for you, and it will do it with a very high degree of accuracy. However, you may have many valid reasons not to do so. Instead, you could use a vim macro. How it works is, you start recording a macro, perform the exact series of keyboard inputs, then save the macro. Then, you run it n number of times, and the macro will perform that exact operation on every single line you run it on. You have just saved over half an hour!