💭 Support Regex Substitution Command · Issue #2232 · Helix-Editor/Helix

Waylon Walker

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I am a heavy user off substitutions in vim, helix does not substitutions built in, rather it leans on multicursor support.

to replace every instance of hello with world in vim






        
:%s/hello/world/g<CR>

and in helix you would






        
%shello<CR>cworld<ESC>,

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