Vim - Search and replace the results

Question

I\'m getting more and more comfortable with Vim after a few months. BUT, there is only one simple feature I can\'t get any answer from the web. That is \"Search and replace the

Answer 1

If you've already done a search you can do a substitution for the same pattern by simply leaving out the pattern in the substitute command. eg:

/keyword

searchs for "keyword", and then:

:%s//new_keyword/g

will replace all occurrences of "keyword" with "new_keyword".