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Search and replace in Vim

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Search and replacing all instances of some text within Vim

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  1. :%s/searchterm/replaceterm/g
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  3. eg.
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  5. Search for the word "today" within the whole file and replace all occurrences of it with "tomorrow".
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  7. :%s/today/tomorrow/g

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