Personally, if my cursor was on the "foo" I'd probably use: *gcn<bar>. That is: * (highlight all occurrences of foo) gcn (globally changes the highligh

Personally, if my cursor was on the "foo" I'd probably use: *gcn<bar>. That is: * (highlight all occurrences of foo) gcn (globally changes the highlighted pattern) <bar> (the text you want to replace with) . (repeat the command as many times as you want). If you know you want to change all the occurrences at once you can highlight "foo" with * (shift-8) and then use :%s//bar/g as it will be set as the last regexp.