Creating Vim Recordings

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Creating Vim Recordings

One of the features of Vim that makes it popular and easy to use with nuanced but repeatable tasks is the ability to create recordings, or repeatable actions, that we then assign to a reference key. In this lab, we'll create and use recordings to update some inconsistently written code.

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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 20, 2025

Duration

15m

Challenge

Create Recordings

Add recordings to keys d, s, and e based on the parameters provided in the instructions.
Challenge

Use Recordings

Use the recordings to update the files based on the parameters in the instructions.

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