Running a macro more than once fails for me

[loosche]

I'm in Visual Studio 2015 with VsVim Version 2.3.0.0 Installed Date 3/23/2017. (Great plugin by the way!) I also have Visual Assist installed which seems to get in the way sometimes.

Create a new text file with a bunch of python comment lines like this (don't even have to save it)

#Hello
#Hello
#Hello
#Hello
#Hello
#Hello

Then define a macro that will duplicate the line and change it into a print statement instead. I did it with this vim command line (starting anywhere on the first line)

q0yypdwiprint ESCjq

Then try to run that macro multiple times, which I did like this

@0@0@0@0

The first time works, but the second time doesn't.

[ricksladkey]

You should not use the numbered registers for macros. In vim, the numbered registers are special:

Numbered register 0 contains the text from the most recent yank command, unless the command specified another register with ["x].

So running the macro the first time caused the contents of the 0 register to be modified from what you recorded to what you yanked.