Text Editor Nonsense

Do you fellow /prog/riders actually use the advanced features of your text editor? I can use both Vim and Emacs comfortably at this point, but really all I ever end up doing is customizing the colors and the keys to split windows / make tabs. I only ever use Vim macros as sort of mass text morphing scripts, like adding a random number at the end of every line, but I never really encounter a scenario where a macro would make programming much easier.

Most of the time if I'm programming I'm too occupied thinking about the program itself to try to think up clever ways to use the editor.

What are some cases where you've actually used an advanced feature of your editor; like macros, to aid in your programming?

If by macro you mean the 'q' command, then yeah, it's only really useful for ad-hoc text-processing tasks; usually for formatting text in my experience. Hardly ever used, but can save a lot of time when it's needed. In a broader sense, where macros can be key mappings and whatnot, I agree with what >>2 is saying.

I don't know what other advanced features you're talking about, but I certainly don't use everything vim has to offer. Or maybe I do, through the plugins I use.