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)