Tip 95: Swap Two or More Words
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Example: swap "dog" and "man"
The dog bit the man.
Return the Other Word
creating two key-value pairs
:let swapper={"dog":"man","man":"dog"}
:echo swapper["dog"]
« man
:echo swapper["man"]
« dog
Match Both Words
/\v(<man>|<dog>)
All Together Now
fetch the captured text by calling the submatch() function in Vim script:
References:
# If you open the file in vim, # then you can \"ayy@a the next line to execute the vim command: :h submatch()
/\v(<man>|<dog>)
:%s//\={"dog":"man","man":"dog"}[submatch(1)]/g
Abolish.vim: A Supercharged Substitute Command
:%S/{man,dog}/{dog,man}/g