Often people ask how It is possible to live with an editor like Vim, that does not allow multi-line-editing and that has even trouble with search and replace. Here is my answer – As with most tools or languages (CMake, bash, … whatever you hate – maybe except for PHP) everything sucks much less if you take the time to figure out how it works.
" TASK - Replace 'foo' with 'bar' " % - in whole buffer " g - all occurrences in line - not only the fist :%s/foo/bar/g " TASK - Replace word under the cursor with 'bar' " <C-r><C-w> - insert word under cursor :%s/<C-r><C-w>/bar/g " viwy - yank inner word " <C-r>" - paste yanked word viwy:%s/<C-r>"/bar/g " * - selects word under cursor and searches for next occurrence " // - repeats last search hit * on word, and :%s//bar/g " replace the last searched text with the last yanked text :%s//\=@"/g