Make substitution pattern automatically searchable

[ChoppinBlockParty]

In Vim it was handy to make a substitution in one line. After that the substitution search patter becomes the last search pattern. You walk over all potential occurrences for substitution via n, hit @: if you want a replacement on this occurrence. Felt very efficient. I have not found a way to do that with evil, I have to manually put the substitution search pattern into search buffer (i.e. /). Am missing something in evil?

Environment

Emacs version: 26.1
Operating System: Ubuntu 16.04
Evil version: 1.2.13
Evil installation type: MELPA
Graphical/Terminal: X
Tested in a make emacs session (see CONTRIBUTING.md): Yes