Vim replaces two words with each other

Question

How to replace all instances of "foo" with "bar" and "bar" with "foo" in vim?

Answer 1

Besides using a temporary word to change, you can also use the abolish plugin as follows:

:%SubVert/{foo,bar}/{bar,foo}/g 

Answer 2

Look at this: how to write only one template for exchanging two lines in two directions in vim

 :s/foo\|bar/\={'foo':'bar','bar':'foo'}[submatch(0)]/g 

Answer 3

• :% s / Foo / bbaarr / g
• :% S / bar / foo / g
• :% s / bbaarr / foo / g

It should be the smartest way to do this, but this one will work for sure!

Answer 4

You can do this using a temporary word. Just make sure it does not exist in the current document.

 /\<asd123\> :%s/\<foo\>/asd123/g :%s/\<asd123\>/bar/g :%s/\<bar\>/foo/g