Vimnastics: Writing Repetitive Markup in Vim

Vimnastics Fig. 1

<select>
    <option value="100">$100</option>
    <option value="200">$200</option>
    <option value="300">$300</option>
    <!-- and so on... -->
</select>

Vimnastics Fig. 2

<select>
  <option value="100">$100</option>
</select>

Vimnastics Fig. 3

# vim normal mode commands
qa              # start recording our macro in the “a” register
yy              # yank the current line
p               # paste the yanked line
/\d<return>     # search for the next digit (1 in this case)
100<ctrl-A>     # increment 100 times
n               # repeat the last search (\d)
100<ctrl-A>     # increment 100 times*
q               # stop recording our macro

Vimnastics Fig. 4

<select>
  <option value="100">$100</option>
  <option value="200">$200</option>
  <option value="300">$300</option>
</select>

Vimnastics Fig. 5

<select>
  <option value="100">$100</option>
  <option value="200">$200</option>
  <option value="300">$300</option>
  <option value="400">$400</option>
  <option value="500">$500</option>
  <option value="600">$600</option>
  <option value="700">$700</option>
</select>