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#### 2.9.4 Change Commands

Most commonly used change command takes the following form.

`c motion-command`

  Replace the content of the region determined by the motion command motion-command by the text you type. If the motion command is a point command then you will type the text into minibuffer, and if the motion command is a line command then the region will be deleted first and you can insert the text in insert mode.

For example, if point is at the beginning of a word ‘`foo`’ and you wish to change it to ‘`bar`’, you can type `c w`. Then, as `w` is a point command, you will get the prompt ‘`foo =>`’ in the minibuffer, for which you can type `b a r RET` to complete the change command.

`c c`

  Change a line. Given a count, that many lines are changed.

`c r`

  Change current region.

`c R`

  Expand current region and change it.