traces.vim VS vim-exchange

For those who wish to preview substitutions as they type à la Neovim inccommand, there's markonm/traces.vim.

Neovim has this built in with set inccommand=split, which is inspired by traces.vim, I believe.

There's also markonm/traces.vim: Range, pattern and substitute preview for Vim

Do you know traces.vim?

There is also https://github.com/markonm/traces.vim that shows the changes made by :substitute interactively.

Perhaps you mean traces.vim? I find it extends live feedback on substitutions and whatnot quite well. Useful for a lot of typical cases where you would expect native Vim/Neovim to provide live feedback but doesn’t. Also, I find the “Feature comparison” table for traces to be modest: it is even better / native is lacking.

May want to use 'incsearch' & 'hlsearch' to help show patterns as you build them with /. Neovim will show substitution previews ('inccommand') and traces.vim will work with Vim.

The traces.vim plugin can help show substitution previews. Neovim may want to look at :h 'inccommand'

I use the vim-exchange plugin.

not sure that would be the best solution. I would use https://github.com/tommcdo/vim-exchange like this cxiwWW..

It cannot. I sometimes need this feature but I just use an editor plugin (https://github.com/tommcdo/vim-exchange) for this..

A bit of a feedback: - I've never really studied quickfix/loclist capabilities much until recently during writing a slightly updated version of :cnext/:cprev. It is indeed a very nice feature, albeit with a lot of "old Vim" presence to it. The 'fzf.vim' and 'telescope.nvim' were always enough for me. Now I have a small hope of trying to make a "poor man Telescope". - Never really understood the utility of 'vim-subversive'. It seems to be very similar to :s or "Visually select -> hit * -> cgn -> dot repeat until needed". - There is a MiniMisc.zoom() as an alternative to 'vim-maximizer'. - I use 'vim-argwrap' myself and do plan to do its analogue. Although hope to make a more or less simple function in 'mini.misc' instead of the whole module. - I did use 'sideways.vim' but replaced it with combination of "argument" textobject from 'mini.ai' and tommcdo/vim-exchange (which I do plan to rewrite, but not quite soon). Here is how (cxia + cxila; exchange "inner argument" with "last inner argument"). Far from perfect, but works most of the time. - I had 'undotree' in my installed plugins for more than a year and I've never really used it. I've seen an idea here, I think, about "straightening" undo history to become a single line instead of a tree. I currently like this idea better than 'undotree'. - Yes, something with "toggle bools" as functionality might be coming. But not very soon.

I'm using https://github.com/tommcdo/vim-exchange in Vim.

Yeah, I use sideways.vim and vim-exchange. (Not entirely sure which solves what OP is asking about.)

For vim users tommcdo/vim-exchange cxiw jump to another word then press dot

I use vim-exchange for situations like this. Old plugin, but still works fine. You visually select one side, press X, visually select the other side and press X. You can also use cx{motion}, and cx{motion} again if you don't want to use visual mode.