In Vim, replace all occurrences of the current word under the cursor

Question

If you press * in Vim, the editor will look for the next occurrence of this word in the same file. This eliminates the need to enter a term.

Is there a quick way to replace the term under the cursor with a new one? One character to issue a command by entering a new term, then Enter .

Answer 1

You can use:

:%s/<cr><cw>/new value/g 

where <cr><cw> means literally type CTRL - r CTRL - w to insert a word under the cursor.

Answer 2

Just use * and then:

 :%s//new value/ 

If you do not specify a template, the substitute command uses the last one found. Depending on the gdefault value in your configuration, you may need to add the /g modifier to this command.

Answer 3

In addition to the other answers, you can save a few more keystrokes by adding the following snippet to your .vimrc file to do a global search and replace.

 " Search and replace word under cursor using F4 nnoremap <F4> :%s/<cr><cw>/<cr><cw>/gc<cf>$F/i 

Answer 4

I went ahead and hacked a plugin that allows you to simply enter the following:

 :Dr REPLACEVALUE 

https://github.com/chiedojohn/vim-dr-replace