Re: new behavior of substitute command

Alessandro Antonello wrote:

> I'm using MacVim 8.1, patches 1-560 and I notice a change in the behavior
> of substitution command. Now it starts to search for text as I type it in
> the command bar, as of the search command. This is good but I lost the
> possibility to use the keys <C-R>-w to copy word under cursor to be
> replaced.

You mean CTRL-R CTRL-W.

> I already searched the help but didn't found a way to get the old behavior.
> Is that possible?

You can type it before any other text. If you want to insert something
before it, you'll have to use the cursor to move back to before the
word.

On the other hand, you can now type a few letters to pick up another
word.

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