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Vim using the last regex search in the command: s

I use slash to find things in vim. I would like to use the regular expression that I used to search for a command (more precisely, command substitution). Is there an easy way to do this?

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the subtitle command will use the last search unless you specify it, so just use:

:s//<replacement>
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Use the useful CTRL-R:

At the command prompt, if you are replacing a command search with :, you can press CTRL-R and then / to insert the last search on the command line.

, : , CTRl-R, :

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