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Re:From VS Code to Helix by pigcat on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @12:01PM (#45748667)
Woah, how did I not know about that tip about omitting the search pattern? Love it and will be using that lots!

As a thank you, I'll leave you with the way I learned to search/replace, just to give you a slightly different flavour: asterisk, cgn ([c]hange [g]o [n]ext), type replaced, then . (period, to repeat) until I'm done.

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Re:From VS Code to Helix by wuhhh on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @01:00PM (#45749696)
Right back at you, that’s super neat!
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Re:From VS Code to Helix by whatevertrevor on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @10:44PM (#45755880)
Let me add my third way of doing this in vim:

    :%s/<CTRL-R><CTRL-W>/replacement/(gcn)
As you can guess <CTRL-W> invokes a special register that contains the "word" currently under the cursor.
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