On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Markus Teich <markus.te...@stusta.mhn.de> wrote: >> i never got the "." command to do much other than repeat the latest insert or >> delete...(probably me). > I find it quite handy as an easy way of interactive search and replace. > Instead > of „:%s/bla/blub/gc“ I can just „*“ on the word, „cw“ or „s5“ once and then > hit > „n“ and „.“ to iterate.
I too use this workflow in sandy... in a silly way. With the old bindings: ^S to search a regex. This sets the selection. ^[5 to prompt with dmenu and pipe the selection through "echo -n". This replaces the text, keeps the selection. ^S to search the next occurrence, set selection. ^^ (that is control-6) to repeat the pipe. Interactive search and replace! One thing I like from sandy is that it sets the selection when finding (instead of highlighting the term in another silly way). Maybe we can keep this in sandy-vi, so that: /foo<RET>cbar<ESC> Works as you expect, despite not being 100% vi(m) compatible. Of course we could follow with: n.n.n. Ad nauseam.
