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		riffraff 23 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vim 9.2 personally, I know I can use search and replace, but <ctrl-n>-n-n-c-replacement[0] is easier on my mind than the search&replace alternative [0] I've been using vim-multiple-cursors for years, it's abandoned but still works ok most of the time.

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bspammer 9 hours ago [–]

Do you know about *? It puts the word currently under the cursor into the search history.

So you can do *ciw, type your replacement, then n.n.n. to do the rest.

Obviously LSPs are more powerful though.

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