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When trying to explain why <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/vim" target="_blank">Vim</a> is so amazing, people often say things like “you don’t have to use the mouse” and “modal editing” and “commands are <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/composable" target="_blank">composable</a>” and such. These are all pretty nice things that make coding faster and easier. They also <em>just so happen</em> to lead to one of the most powerful and criminally underpublicized features of Vim: macros.