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0 pointsdizhn3mo ago0 comments

Highlighted search/replace does this pretty well too.

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eviks3mo ago· 2 in thread

Not really, it only does it for the first edit, while multiple cursors offer continuous feedback for all further besides, search/replace has extra toolbar and usually can't as easily select, for example, "current Identifier under cursor" if those are different, so it's worse before the first edit as well

dizhnOP3mo ago

I'll have to try that out sometime. Never used multiple cursors. However, search/replace with vim/neovim isn't just the first edit either. It highlights all matches and shows you the proposed changes as you type as well. (It is probably a configurable thing).

eviks3mo ago

How can it show proposed changes if search doesn't match anymore after edits?

You search for OLD, replace it with NWE, then notice the typo, delete 2 chars and type EW. How can search and replace help you here without searching for NWE anew?

Yeah, do try it out to at least see the difference

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