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

Words here to stop Markdown treating the code that follows as plain text.

/lorem
"adw
/ipsum
"aP"bdw
``
"bp

The first text searches for 'lorem'; the next deletes the word into the buffer named 'a', leaving a pair of empty quotes behind in the text. The next search finds 'ipsum'; the "aP pulls the buffer named 'a' in before the word ipsum; the "bdw deletes the word into the buffer named 'b', leaving 'lorem' behind. The double back-tick goes back to the place the last search came from - the empty quotes; and "bp pulls the named buffer after the first quote.

You can also omit the "a and "b, but this way, the values are in the named buffers "a and "b and can be copied again, and again, and again until you don't need the values any more.