substitute.nvim VS ReplaceWithRegister

https://github.com/gbprod/substitute.nvim https://github.com/smjonas/duplicate.nvim

Try this https://github.com/gbprod/substitute.nvim

That one - https://github.com/gbprod/substitute.nvim . It is two plugins in one technically, substitute and exchange.

I use substitute.nvim for this purpose, which adds the "substitute" verb that you can apply to a text object to paste over it (without modifying your register).

I know you can accomplish this with vanilla vim motions, but I use a plugin for substituting textobjects with what's in my registers called substitute.nvim. vim-subversive and vim-exchange are other alternatives.

I would recommend substitute.nvim. It lets you input text over a text-object, and doesn't affect your " register

vim-subversive/substitute.nvim

Very cool! I think there is also https://github.com/gbprod/substitute.nvim

For neovim users -> gbprod/substitute.nvim sxiw jump to another word and press dot

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.