How come this vim macro doesn't work?

Question

I've got a file that looks roughly like the following:

field :t, :type => String, :as => :timestamp
field :b, :type => String, :as => :test

index({ :t => 1 })
index({ :b => 1 })

I put my cursor on line 4, and record the following macro:

/: <CR> viwyma?field : ctrl-r 0, <CR> $F:lviwy`aviwpj^

So search for a colon, go there, select the whole word ( t in this case), create a mark on a , search backwards for field followed by a colon, the word in register 0 ( t ), then a comma. Go to the end of the line, go one character to the left, select the whole word, yank it, go back to the a mark, select the whole word, paste what I just yanked ( timestamp ), then go to the next line and to the first non-whitespace character (so I can run the macro again right away).

After that, line 4 is what I expect, index({ :timestamp => 1 }) Then, I try running the macro again, and line 5 becomes index({ :: => 1 })

Thanks!

Answer 1

I found the problem. I had installed vim-hardtime to make movement slower. I had assumed it would be disabled for macros but it turns out that's not the case.