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I know that this expansion exists, but never use it in practice.

Why? The last command is more general, you can just drop the g from the command I wrote to only replace the first occurrence. Besides, :[g]s/old/new should already be familiar to anyone who has used vim, so that is almost like having to learn zero new things.




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