A couple of years ago vim introduced the gn motion, which is incredibly useful (especially in conjunction with '.' to repeat actions).

This is not implemented in the editor. For a nice explanation of why the gn motion is so useful, please see here:

http://vimcasts.org/episodes/operating-on-search-matches-using-gn/
https://medium.com/@schtoeffel/you-don-t-need-more-than-one-cursor-in-vim-2c44117d51db