I am using Vimperator 3.8.1 with Firefox 25.0. I have created a macro to solve a problem (details below), and this macro fails at the following point.
Vimperator Macro e:
/foo<Return>cv<Down>y
My macro searches for a string ('foo') in the page, then goes into caret mode, then into the visual mode, and then selects one line of text and then copies that text.
My problem is that when I record this macro, the one selected line gets copied, but when I play it (using play command), nothing gets copied onto the clipboard. Thus, due to this, I am unable to retrieve that info in an automated manner. I don't know what to Google for in this case, so I posting this here on SO.
I will be highly obliged if someone can also explain why this happens the way it does. Please also let me know if something is not clear.
Problem Details
I am using Vimperator 3.8.1 with Firefox 25.0. I have a lot of tabs (about 300 tabs) which contain similar information (only one line is different on each tab). I want to copy that single line from each tab and collate it in one place. That one line begins with the string 'foo' in every case, and each of the 300 tabs has links that can be incremented using Ctrl+a in Vimperator (i.e. ...page=1, ...page=2)
How I plan to accomplish this is as follows. I have an online notepad open in tab 1, and the very first of my 300 tabs open in tab 2. I copy my single line from tab 2, and paste it into tab 1, then go back and increment tab 2 to point to the next tab. I will repeat this macro 300 times to get all the info.
Thus my complete macro will look like
/foo<Return>cv<Down>y<C-PageUp><C-t>p<C-PageDown><C-a>