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Any operation involving regular expression based substitution of text, such as the ex-mode `:s` command. Not to be confused with the [replace] tag.

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Why does vim replace with confirmation only replace the first occurrence in the each line?

For example, for a line X X X with the command :s/X/Y/c vim will only replace the first occurrence, namely the first 'X' to 'Y', is there a way to let vim go through all the 'X' and replace it whi …
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