What's the vim way to select multiple instances of current word and change them?

Question

Anyone familiar with Sublime Text\'s multiple cursor feature will recognize the pattern of doing the following: press a hotkey multiple times to select multiple instances of the

Answer 1

I use the *, gn, and the . to make changes.

• Select current word with * (go back with N)
• Change word with gn motion. e.g. cgnfoo
• Repeat via . command

Note: If you have many changes then using a substitution command would probably be better.

There is a nice Vimcasts episode about the gn motion: Operating on search matches using gn.

For more help see:

:h *
:h gn
:h .