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

You can record macros in Vim by pressing q. Macros can include the n command to search for the next instance of a word. You can also go into insert mode while recording (e.g. using the c command with a motion such as iw to replace the current word). Press q to stop recording, and then press @ to replay the macro once. After that, you can use @@ to repeat the macro as many times as you like.