Acting on a match

In Vim, a search puts the cursor at the start of the match, and changing the text takes a second step to say how much of it you mean. In Helix that second step is already done: the match is the selection.

That means any command that acts on a selection works directly on a search result:

• c deletes the match and drops you into insert mode in its place
• d deletes the match
• y copies it

And because n hands you the next match as a fresh selection, you can search once and then work through the file one match at a time.

Work through the checklist below. The word the is misspelled as teh twice in the editor — search for it, confirm the search with Enter (the checklist ticks off the search as soon as the pattern is typed, and Escape would leave c acting on a single character instead of the match), change the first one, then jump to the second and fix that too.