title: What's the vim way to select multiple instances of current word and change them?
body: <p>Anyone familiar with Sublime Text's multiple cursor feature will recognize the pattern of doing the following: press a hotkey multiple times to select multiple instances of the word under the cursor and automatically create a new cursor for each of those instances; then edit each instance simultaneously, e.g. by replacing the current word with another word or whatever you want.</p>
  
  <p>The multiple cursors feature is available for vim via <a href="https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors" rel="noreferrer">plugin</a>. Before using that plugin, I want (as a new vim user), to check whether there is a more natively vim-like way to achieve the same task.</p>
  
  <p>For instance, I know I could use the <code>:s</code> command to do a search and replace (per instructions <a href="http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Search_and_replace" rel="noreferrer">here</a>), but that requires me to (1) type in the word I want to replace (or use the <code>&lt;C-r&gt;&lt;C-a&gt;</code> shortcut to do so), as opposed to simply using the current word and (2) define a range. Perhaps this is the native vim way to do it, perhaps (likely!) there's another way I don't know.</p>
  
  <p>So what is the native vim way?</p>