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There are many other Vim plug-ins implementing search and replace features. There are Vim plug-ins that emulate the "multiple cursors" feature from other editors such as Sublime or VS Code, for example, mg979/vim-visual-multi (successor to the now deprecated terryma/vim-multiple-cursors.)īut since these plug-ins need to use Vim highlighting features to emulate multiple selections and they typically need to re-implement many Vim native movements, they are often limited in what they can do and they can be a little buggy. I'm fairly sure I saw a plugin for this once, but I can't find that right now either 😅 I can't really find an issue for it on the Vim tracker right now. In NeoVim you can use :set inccommand=nosplit to show a preview in a split window, but this isn't in Vim yet. Generally speaking Vim isn't too good at these kind of live preview things and such even the live search when you use / is actually fairly new and was added 3 years ago. I find this is a reasonably efficient workflow. :echo isn't exactly the live preview you asked for, which is something Vim doesn't really have right now. The current search pattern is stored in the register, which is a variable you can read and write for example if you want to use phrase without the word boundaries: :echo = 'phrase' I find that this is generally a more convenient way to do search previews than the /c flag: search for something: verify it matches what you want, and use :s//replace. If you omit the search pattern in :s then it will automatically use the current search pattern. You can then use :%s//sentence/g to replace phrase with sentence. One way would be to press * when your cursor is on the word you want to replace, phrase in this case, which will search for that word (very useful in general!) It will use \ as the pattern: the \> are word boundaries (similar to \b in Perl-style regexps) so that it won't match phrases. It does require breaking some learned habits and thought-processes, however, and it’s not for everyone. , operators like c, d, and all the other motions and such can be, in the long term, more efficient.

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Really, though, learning how to use commands like :substitute, :global. I can’t recommend any, never having used them, but they are out there. There do exist multi-cursor-emulation plugins for vim.

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Or :cfdo %substitute if you know you want the whole of each file.ĭon’t forget to :cfdo update or just :wall afterwards.

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These can be quite powerful, and a full overview is out-of-scope ( :help ).Ī slightly more advanced option: do a search ( :grep, :vimgrep, &c.) or some other operation that fills the quickfix list ( :cexpr, :make) and then cdo substitute/pat/repl/flags If you want to substitute in a narrower region, than the whole file ( %), use ranges (and remember that in visual mode, : automatically populates the range ', which is also the range *, which is all the lines in the selection). If you want to do this with a visually-selected pattern, I would yank it, followed by %substitute/"//replacement/gc These are somewhat equivalent to %substitute/\=expand('')\>/replacement/gc If you already searched for the word, ignore the * and just cgn. So you put your cursor somewhere in a word, press *cgn, type the replacement, hit, and then hit.

*: start a search for the word under the cursor ( g* if you don’t want the word boundaries).

So, not really what you asked for, but: *cgn If not, I would probably proceed with either multiples of the steps below, or combine all the patterns into a single substitute pattern. I’m assuming all the things to change are the same. As the main goal is to change a word locally, the combination *cgn Is perfect.Īs I'm changing the also the current word and * jumps me to the next match, what I add to go back to that word is Ctrl + N. Ben Knoble you provided to me the more convenient and practical answer.

then start writing and see those changes written in real-time or after hitting Esc.

then I want to have a single command to select the next match.

imagine that I already have selected the word with viw, for example.

Could someone help me with a vim script or a plugin to achieve this in the most similar way? I know there is a Vim way of replacing using: :% s/target-word/replacement/gcīut as you can see it's still a lot to write compared to its counterpart in VS Code. I would like to achieve one important feature that helped me a lot in my productivity: Select multiple words, one at a time, and then replace them all. I'm new to Vim I come from Visual Studio. Goal: Select multiple words, one at a time, then replace them all.