Feature request: Add a way to replace every instance of a substring on the current line

[Hubro]

(This is not a bug report, so I'm not following the standard template)

First of all, let me say that zsh-vi-mode is amazing, I'm certain it's the best Vi-mode plugin for any shell that exists.

However I have encountered one pretty common scenario that I would easily be able to resolve inside Vim, but is more challenging in zsh-vi-mode.

If I have a line like:

ln -sf ../syncthing/dotfiles/darkman .config/darkman

If I wanted to replace "darkman" with "direnv", in Vim I would just place my cursor on the word "darkman", press <C-n><C-n> to select both instances of "darkman", then press c to replace the word and enter insert mode, then type "direnv". Super quick and easy. (Though, to be clear, this is using the vim-visual-multi plugin, this is not built-in Vim functionality.)

Without multiple selections, this becomes a lot more tedious, especially when I have to repeat it a bunch of times for several different symlinks.

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To summarize the feature request:

Problem: Replacing many instances of the same text on a line is tedious

Solution in Vim/Neovim: A multi-select plugin

Solution in zsh-vi-mode: ?

Possible solutions:

• Add multiple cursors to zsh-vi-mode (drawback: extremely complicated)
• Add limited support for multiple selections
  • Make a visual selection, then press a keybinding to also select the next instance of the selected text
  • Also needs a keybinding to skip the current selection and jump to the next one
  • Allow pressing d or x to delete the selection and leave multi-select mode, or press c to replace the selections and insert some new text, I to enter insert mode at the start of every selection or A to enter insert mode at the end of every selection
  • Simpler than full-blown multi-cursor mode, still massively powerful
• Add a "replace all" keybinding
  • The user selects a span of text
  • Presses a keybinding called something "replace all"
  • This deletes the selected text and enters insert mode
  • When leaving insert mode, all the other instances of the selected text on the same line is also replaced
  • Much, much simpler than the above solutions, still solves the issue

[jeffreytse]

Hi @Hubro,

Thank you very much for your good idea and scenarios, I'd love to explore this feature in the next days.

Thanks & Regards