Pasting inside delimiters without using visual selection

Question

In Vim, let\'s say I want to replace the contents of one String with the content of another.

Original input

var1 = \"January\"
var2          


        

Answer 1

I need this so often, I wrote a plugin to simplify and allow maximum speed: ReplaceWithRegister.

This plugin offers a two-in-one gr command that replaces text covered by a {motion} / text object, entire line(s) or the current selection with the contents of a register; the old text is deleted into the black-hole register, i.e. it's gone. It transparently handles many corner cases and allows for a quick repeat via the standard . command. Should you not like it, its page has links to alternatives.