How to replicate the great visual selection search and replace

[Frank Fischer]

On 2013-03-29, Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt at polytechnique.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> There is a feature of evil I really like: it's how it's displaying the
> current matches and what the substitution will be when doing a search
> and replace on a selected region.
>
> Unfortunately I sometimes have to use a machine on which I cannot
> install evil. I was wondering if such a similar feature existed in
> emacs, or if it was implemented from scratch in evil.

It has been implemented from scratch in Evil.

Best regards,
Frank