# You Don’t Need More Than One Cursor in Vim
## Metadata
- Author: [[Christoph Hermann]]
- Full Title: You Don’t Need More Than One Cursor in Vim
- Category: #articles
- Source: medium
- Last Highlighted: 2024-10-30 10:08:51.730509+00:00
- URL: https://medium.com/p/2c44117d51db
## Highlights
- In vim selecting and editing is one step. This can be done with the gn text-object. Normally you will search for a word you want to change and the change the next found occurrence with cgn once and then use vim’s most powerful command the . (dot). Using . you can apply the change to the next word or skip one word with n which will jump to the next word.