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Changing Text
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`<count>  r<char>'
     Replace <count> chars by <char> - no <esc>.

`<count>  R'
     Overwrite the rest of the line, appending change COUNT - 1 times.

`<count>  s'
     Substitute <count> chars.

`<count>  S'
     Change <count> lines.

`<count>  c<move>'
     Change from begin to endpoint of <count><move>.

`<count>  cc'
     Change <count> lines.

`<count>  C'
     The rest of the line and <count> - 1 next lines.

`<count>  =<move>'
     Reindent the region described by move.

`<count>  ~'
     Switch lower and upper cases.

`<count>  J'
     Join <count> lines (default 2).

`:[x,y]s/<pat>/<repl>/<f>'
     Substitute (on lines x through y) the pattern <pat> (default the
     last pattern) with <repl>.  Useful flags <f> are `g' for `global'
     (i.e. change every non-overlapping occurrence of <pat>) and `c' for
     `confirm' (type `y' to confirm a particular substitution, else `n'
     ).  Instead of `/' any punctuation CHAR unequal to <space> <tab>
     and <lf> can be used as delimiter.

     In Emacs, `\&' stands for the last matched expression, so
     `s/[ab]+/\&\&/' will double the string matched by `[ab]'.  Viper
     doesn't treat `&' specially, unlike Vi: use `\&' instead.

     Note: _The newline character (inserted as `C-qC-j') can be used in
     <repl>_.

`:[x,y]copy [z]'
     Copy text between `x' and `y' to the position after `z'.

`:[x,y]t [z]'
     Same as `:copy'.

`:[x,y]move [z]'
     Move text between `x' and `y' to the position after `z'.

`&'
     Repeat latest Ex substitute command, e.g.  `:s/wrong/right'.

`C-c /'
     Toggle case-sensitive search.  With prefix argument, toggle
     vanilla/regular expression search.

`#c<move>'
     Change upper-case characters in the region to lower-case.

`#C<move>'
     Change lower-case characters in the region to upper-case.

`#q<move>'
     Insert specified string at the beginning of each line in the region

`C-c M-p and C-c M-n'
     In Insert and Replace states, these keys are bound to commands
     that peruse the history of the text previously inserted in other
     insert or replace commands.  By repeatedly typing `C-c M-p' or
     `C-c M-n', you will cause Viper to insert these previously used
     strings one by one.  When a new string is inserted, the previous
     one is deleted.

     In Vi state, these keys are bound to functions that peruse the
     history of destructive Vi commands.  Note: Viper Specials, for
     details.