I do this all the time with Vim. To the point that it astonishes me that this isn't like the third or fourth thing people learn about Vim.

You can just record and play back your exact keystrokes like a _Super Smash Melee_ game plays back your inputs to replay matches. If you can figure out how to do any mildly complex action once you can literally replay it a thousand times. Just like AutoHotKey! To my that's the essence of citizen programming!