One might have many blocks of text that are clearly delimited, but which need the order reversed, as in this example: ... html for first block, multiple lines ... ... html for second block, multiple lines ... ... html for third block, multiple lines ... To solve this problem, observe that the first block does not need to be moved. Go to the last line of the first block (in this case the ) then record a macro by typing: Now you should be able to run the macro with @a (and then @@ for each subsequent run) for each block you need to move. Note that this won't work for nested