vim copy and replace text

Question

Lets say that i have this text:

$test = \'lorem\';
$test2= \'ipsum\';

and I want to copy lorem and paste into ipsum. I tried to do yi\' on lor

Answer 1

I'm not sure what do you want exactly.

You have this on two lines:

$test = 'lorem';
$test2= 'ipsum';

If you go to l and yw, it yanks lorem, then go to i of ipsum, and cw, and p and it will replace ipsum with lorem. You will still have both lorem and ipsum in the registers.

You can get the contents of those registers with :reg

If you want to paste something from them then "*p, or ":p, or "0p (you'll see it when you type :reg)

Answer 2

vi'y on lorem

vi'p on ipsum

gvy to copy back lorem to register for possible macro with vi'p

(qa - gvy - j - vi'p - q - @a - @@ - @@ ...)

Answer 3

I usually go to the sed command.

:%s/ipsum/lorem/g

• % means do this for every line
• s means sed, or search and replace
• g at the end means replace every ipsum with lorem; if you omit this, it only replaces the first.

Answer 4

Go to the l of lorem, ye (yank to end of word). Go to the i of ipsum, "_de (delete to end of word, putting the deleted text in the black hole register. P (paste register before cursor).

Altogether: yej"_deP