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and so does v2ec

• godd2 10y ago
  It's not the same. That will only repeat the change of the number of characters of the length of those 2 words. c2w, when repeated, will change 2 words, no matter how long the words are. For example: This is a string of text. This is a string of text. If the cursor is at the "i" of "is" on line 2, and you type v2echello<Esc>, you will have: This is a string of text. This hello string of text. If you move the cursor to the "s" of "string" on the first line, and press ".", you will get: This is a hellong of text. This hello string of text. However, if you had used c2w, it would have replaced "string of" with "hello" like so: This is a hello text. This hello string of text. Visual mode is lossy in terms of text objects. It only remembers counts of character movements, that's why it replaced 4 characters with "hello" instead of replacing 2 words with "hello".