Vim has substitution: %s/thingamabob/doodad/g You can put regexes in there, so for 99% of cases you're fine. In neovim (but not in vim) this will also show yo

Vim has substitution: %s/thingamabob/doodad/g You can put regexes in there, so for 99% of cases you're fine. In neovim (but not in vim) this will also show you a "multicaret" UI. This is also just one mode of sed, so if you need to do this across multiple files you can just run sed.