I still think their point about search and replace still stand though. I make most my edits with regex in neovim nowadays and I feel this is the superior paradigm: You don't even need to get to some specific location in order to edit it. I also almost only use search to move around the file and I can even reuse the searches for substitutions. It makes most vim motions and commands almost useless for me nowadays.

I also feel like macros are a more clunky and error prone way to do what substitutions can do. Almost never use them.

> I was a Neovim macro user until I figured out how insane that was compared to multi-cursor after using Helix.

Multi-cursor was the first plugin I installed when I moved from VSCode to Vim because I was used to hitting Ctrl+d to select all words and then replacing. Does Helix do something different?

1) First I reach for <C-v> for visual block selection if everything is neatly aligned.

2) Next choice is %s/search/replace(/c if I need confirm).

3) Macros, and I love it everytime I get to use them. I just record the movements, copy what I need to copy, paste it where I need to paste it, and it's repeatable for every line or block where the *formatting* matches. And this is the important part, the words don't matter. I still feel like a wizard using them.

As far as I understand multi-cursor option 3 is a no-go without macros if the words don't match. But macros don't care as long as the movements translate to the same edits. How does Helix multi-cursor work that make macros insane?