[sevensor]

> Would s/foo/bar/g change every foo into bar without also changing every food into bard?

Sure, and if that’s the case you write a better pattern. The replacement s/foo/bar/g applies only to the current line as written. It’s easy to see if it will work or not. But if you also have food on the same line, you can write s/foo\ze\W/bar/g to match foo followed by a non-letter and replace only foo.

> Also in most use cases, clicking for each multicursor is the wrong way to do it.

Maybe, but I’ve sure spent a lot of time pair programming with people who do it, which is why I bring it up. For what it’s worth, I prefer multicursors, and my find-and-replace workflow is much as you describe, albeit entirely keyboard and regex driven. Your average junior programmer who just learned vscode three or four years ago only knows multiclicking though, and I don’t want to kill the momentum by interrupting to point out how they could use their tools better.