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Please learn dot ".". It repeats the last edit action. It's so powerful.

I use macros way more often than dot. With a macro I can include the movement action of getting to the correct position before the edit takes place, I'm not sure if this can be done with the dot key alone.

Whether one uses . or a macro (manual or recorded) should depend on the current situation. It's really not a "pick one and stick with" it kind of situation.

I agree, so many ways to do it it’s horses for courses.

Eg from the first “pick” you could press * to highlight occurrences and move to the next one use cw to change it to “s” and bounce on n to move to the next one you to squash and use . to repeat the change.

That’s visual and lets you decide which commits to squash.

If I wanted to squash all the other commits I’d probably use visual block and } instead, but that’s just me.

I’d save a macro for more complex edits.

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