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title: "Support regex substitution command · Issue #2232 · helix-edito..."
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date: 2024-10-08
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I am a heavy user off substitutions in vim, helix does not substitutions built in, rather it leans on multicursor support.

to replace every instance of hello with world in vim

``` text
:%s/hello/world/g<CR>
```

and in helix you would

``` text
%shello<CR>cworld<ESC>,
```