• If you're looking for visual editing columns together, ctrl+v works with vanilla vim
• If you're looking for find-and-replace behavior, use :%s/find/replace/g
• If you want to repeat a transformation on similar keywords, you can use * to search for the keyword under the cursor and use . to repeat your edit
• If you want to repeat a complicated transformation, you can use q to create a macro and then repeat it with @