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- [Instructor] Open success.text. Vim success.txt. Say you'd like to change problems to challenges. First you'll move to problems with a regular expression, forward slash + p + enter. Now if you do d w to delete the word, it will delete the word, but you're still in normal mode, which means you have to press I to enter instant mode. For this we have the c command. The c command stands for change. It will delete the part of the text and will drop you to instant mode at the same time, c w. And now that you're in instant mode, you can write your changes, challenges. The first version was better. Hit escape to get back to normal mode and u to undo. As with other commands, you can use any motion with c. Let's change the first part up to have. Move to the beginning of the line with zero and then c + forward slash + h which means change up to where you find an h, and enter. And now we can write you should. Let's get back to the original text and quit. First escape, to get into normal mode…

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