Refactoring in Vim

Question

Of course the fact that you can refactor on IDEs is priceless for many, I hardly ever do it when I am coding but I may try to do it when editing some one else\'s source. How do

Answer 1

Place cursor at name to refactor and type

gd (or gD if you're refactoring a global variable).

Then

cgn new_name esc

and

. one or more times to refactor next occurrence(s)

or

:%norm . to refactor all occurrences in the buffer at once.