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Some people can craft the perfect command ahead of time to execute an series of editing operations on the first try. Some other people (/raises hand) prefer to visual incremental feedback on an in-progress operation and be able to partially undo mistakes as they go.

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With Vim it’s all local decision unless writing a macro or regex substitution would take less time (the structure is very repetitive). Often it’s just n.n.n.n. (Next search occurence and repeat last edit)

People coming from word or notepad have no idea what 'n.n.n.n.' is supposed to be - they know how a cursor works though.

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