On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 06:10:57PM +0200, Markus Teich wrote: > Carlos Torres wrote: > > i never got the "." command to do much other than repeat the latest insert > > or > > delete...(probably me). > > Heyho, > > I find it quite handy as an easy way of interactive search and replace. > Instead > of „:%s/bla/blub/gc“ I can just „*“ on the word, „cw“ or „s5“ once and then > hit > „n“ and „.“ to iterate.
I use it in the same way. The functionality is useful if you do not want to use the macro functionality with 'q' and '@' but still want to repeat a single, complete command. For example, pressing "C", replacing the rest of a line with something else and then do the same by just typing "." on other lines.