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		Xi_Bprime on July 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: I built an interactive course that helps ... You can search & replace all occurences of a word with the substitute command. Type : and write `%s/user/account/g`. Although you won't get a real-time preview and will only see the changes after they've happened, unless you use a bunch of extensions(I use nvim).

xigoi on July 9, 2022 [–]

> Although you won't get a real-time preview and will only see the changes after they've happened, unless you use a bunch of extensions(I use nvim).

In Neovim, you can just :set inccommand=nosplit (actually, it's the default now).

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