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Re:Show HN: I built an interactive course that helps you lea... by Xi_Bprime on Saturday July 09, 2022 @12:36PM (#32036754)
You can search & replace all occurences of a word with the substitute command.

Type : and write `%s/user/account/g`.

Although you won't get a real-time preview and will only see the changes after they've happened, unless you use a bunch of extensions(I use nvim).

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Re:Show HN: I built an interactive course that helps you lea... by xigoi on Saturday July 09, 2022 @01:49PM (#32037563)
> Although you won't get a real-time preview and will only see the changes after they've happened, unless you use a bunch of extensions(I use nvim).

In Neovim, you can just :set inccommand=nosplit (actually, it's the default now).

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