One thing I find useful is to set a shortcut for "Replace and Find Next". I use 
"Cmd-Opt-F" which is normally "Live Search" I guess.

I use Cmd-E and Cmd-Opt-E as described to set up a search/replace and then 
cycle through the document doing Cmd-G to advance to the next instance and 
either Cmd-G to skip it or Cmd-Opt-F to replace and advance. That way I can 
contemplate each replacement to make sure I'm not going to change something I 
don't intend. And then if it does seem safe and there are a lot of instances I 
do a Cmd-Opt-= to finish the job.

Replace all makes me nervous, but that's what version control is for, right?

[fletcher]


> On May 4, 2018, at 4:01 PM, Néstor E. Aguilera <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Remember that "Cmd-Opt-E" is "Use Selection for Replace", complementing 
> "Cmd-E (use selection for find), so a sequence could be
> 
> 1. select text,
> 
> 2. Cmd-E (use selection for find),
> 
> 3. replace the text with what you want,
> 
> 4. Cmd-Opt-E (use the new text for replace)
> 
> 5. Dangerous part: Cmd-Opt-= (replace all).
> 
> Best,
> 
> Nestor
> 
> ===============================================
> 
>> On 4 May 2018, at 10:13, Robert <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Friday, May 4, 2018 at 2:06:28 AM UTC-4, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote:
>> On 4 May 2018, at 5:26, Christopher Stone wrote:
>> 
>> On 05/03/2018, at 22:20, Robert <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> If I have a word highlighted throughout my code, is there a key combo that 
>> allows me to replace the one instance and it replaces them all?
>> 
>> Hey Bob,
>> 
>> Not at present.
>> 
>> You can use Cmd-E to “Use Selection for Find” though.
>> 
>> … and then ALT-CMD-= for "Replace All".
>> 
>> And if you feel courageous ;-) you could combine the both with a 
>> KeyboardMaestro-Macro in the wished key combo.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Vlad
>> 
>> 
>> Awesome, I will try that out.  :)
>> 
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