Let me add my third way of doing this in vim: :%s/<CTRL-R><CTRL-W>/replacement/(gcn) As you can guess <CTRL-W> invokes a special register that contains th

Let me add my third way of doing this in vim: :%s/<CTRL-R><CTRL-W>/replacement/(gcn) As you can guess <CTRL-W> invokes a special register that contains the "word" currently under the cursor.