VIM: Finding and replacing first N occurrences of a word

Question

I am editing a file and i want to change only a specific word with another word, but only for first N occurrences. I tried multiple commands

N :s/word/newword/

Answer 1

Although a bit longer, you can do:

:call feedkeys("yyyq") | %s/word/newword/gc

to replace the first 3 occurrences and then stop. You can change the amount of y's for more or less replacements. (Can also use n to skip some)

Explanation: this is feeding y keystrokes into the /c confirm option of the substitution command.