ReplaceWithRegister VS vim-cutlass

I think my single most-used plugin is ReplaceWithRegister. Using that, your 4th step would be gri" (go replace inside quotes).

2 essential plugins for me that I don’t see talked about much anymore are vim-scripts/ReplaceWithRegister and vim-scripts/ReplaceWithSameIndentRegister. The vanilla way to do this is not super difficult, delete into the black hole register, then paste. Or visually select, then paste. And afterwards clean up the formatting if necessary. But I do this hundreds of times a day, the convenience of having a dedicated command for it is massive.

It sounds like you would enjoy this plugin: https://github.com/vim-scripts/ReplaceWithRegister.

Someone shared ReplaceWithRegister in a previous thread about plugins. It's become my most used.

One that I use literally 50 times a day is (Replace with register)[https://github.com/vim-scripts/ReplaceWithRegister]. It lets you replace the motioned content with your register, so griw would replace the current word object with the register. Absolutely lost with out it.

and the remappings suggested by [cutlass(https://github.com/svermeulen/vim-cutlass). I use the ones with "x" doing the "cutting".

You can use a plugin like https://github.com/svermeulen/vim-cutlass or remap those delete commands to go to the blackhole register. See http://vimcasts.org/blog/2013/11/registers-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-parts/ for a complete explanation.

svermeulen/vim-cutlass because I hate the yand-on-delete behavior. d to delete, m to cut. ("move")

There is a plugin for this. It's actually tricky to do this without a plugin, since there are so many commands that clutter the " register on use, including every key in select mode.

I wanted to know if there was an easy way to make spacemacs' evil mode not affect yank when using dd or similar delete commands so instead of "cut" it would "delete". But I still want the "clipboard" to be global. (So I can still copy/paste things in and out of spacemacs) Basically, I'm trying to achieve what this vim plugin does. Any ideas?

EasyClip or Cutlass?

Or vim-cutlass - maybe extreme for a purist but it fits my mental model perfectly by making other operations (c cc d dd etc) delete to black hole and giving a new one for cut (eg m) - https://github.com/svermeulen/vim-cutlass

Not Neovim specific, but I use cutlass to turn off this feature for most operations: https://github.com/svermeulen/vim-cutlass

vim-cutlass is a simple plugin that does what you want. I have m (for "move") mapped to the default delete behavior (and use 'gm' for marks).