Consider I changed a word to "Next" (cwNext
ESC). After this I do, say, change till semi-colon (cf;
). At this point, I want the previous substitution (Next) to be inserted here. Is this a way to do this? I think there is a way to do it!
The point is with any subsequent edits invoked by different means (like 6S
, cf;
, 3cw
, etc), I want the insertion done in the first instance to be repeated.
That last insert can be repeated using Ctrl-A (see :help i_CTRL-A
). Pressing cf;<C-A>
will insert "Next" over everything including the next semi-colon. This solution was pointed out by user yolenover, all credits go to them.
The last change is also stored in the .
(dot) register (see :help quote.
).
If you want to avoid pressing the Ctrl key, you could also visual-select the text to the semi-colon and then put the contents of the dot register using vf;".p
.