when doing a manual search and replace, if you keep pressing replace after it's found the last occurance you end up the the replace text being inserted into the line at the end of where it last replaced the text
eg:
sample text
abc
abc
abcd
replace c with zz, and keep pressing replace after all 4 occurances of c have been replaced
result:
abzz
abzz
abzz
abzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzd
hope this sample helps.
Grant Smith