On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:12:45AM -0600, Hans Fugal wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 at 11:07 -0600, Andrew McNabb wrote:
> > > /yomama<enter>vllllllllcyo mama<esc>n.n.n.
> > 
> > Wouldn't it be easier to do:
> > :%s/yomama/yo mama/g
> > 
> > or if you want to step:
> > :s/yomama/yo mama/
> > and then "n&" for each subsequent replace?
> 
> I didn't know about &, that's cool. Yes, the :s approach is probably
> cleaner and better, but for whatever reason it's the other that my
> fingers do when I'm not driving them. 

I always end up using this version to choose which ones to replace:
:s/yomama/yo mama/gc

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