Visual star search replace

[ghost]

I request adding an option (if not already present) to use this plugin as normal, but hit ? or a similar key to start replacing text. For instance, say I have a file:

......occurrence...
....occurrence...

I would then select the first occurrence and hit * as usual, but press ? and type what to replace it with (then hit enter)

[bronson]

Yeah, this would be handy. I've always switched out of search mode and written a :substitution expression... and I've never questioned doing that until now.

I would expect the solution to apply to all star-searches, not just visual-star-searches. Heck, I'd expect it to work any time n and p take you to a new match, so all searches.

Have you looked for a plugin that can perform find-and-replace using vim's built-in searching (without resorting to writing ex :s// expressions)? If that plugin exists, I would expect it to work fine with visual-star-search.

If it doesn't exist, someone should write it. :)