Let’s say we have a text, and I enter visual mode and select some text. How do I quickly do a search for the highlighted text and replace it with something else?
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Let’s say we have a text, and I enter visual mode and select some text. How do I quickly do a search for the highlighted text and replace it with something else?
Try execute the following or put in into your
.vimrcBy pressing ctrl+r in visual mode, you will be prompted to enter text to replace with. Press enter and then confirm each change you agree with y or decline with n.
This command will override your register
hso you can choose other one (by changinghin the command above to another lower case letter) that you don’t use.