$$$$$$$$\ $$\   $$\   $$\                               $$\
        $$  _____|$$ |  $$ |  $$ |                              $$ |
    $$\ $$ |      \$$\ $$  |$$$$$$\    $$$$$$\  $$$$$$$\   $$$$$$$ |
    \__|$$$$$\     \$$$$  / \_$$  _|  $$  __$$\ $$  __$$\ $$  __$$ |
        $$  __|    $$  $$<    $$ |    $$$$$$$$ |$$ |  $$ |$$ /  $$ |
    $$\ $$ |      $$  /\$$\   $$ |$$\ $$   ____|$$ |  $$ |$$ |  $$ |
    \__|$$$$$$$$\ $$ /  $$ |  \$$$$  |\$$$$$$$\ $$ |  $$ |\$$$$$$$ |
        \________|\__|  \__|   \____/  \_______|\__|  \__| \_______|
               When the Ex commands evolve into operators
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We all like operators. We can use a single text object, i.e., ap (around paragraph) to compose commands that delete, copy or indent just the text in that paragraph. But, what about the ex commands? These forces us to first select the text just to have to write the full command after that.

How to fix that? With this plugin that has operators as <Leader\>s that wrap the functionality of Ex commands (in this case, :substitute). New when you ever need to replace "leviosar" for "leviosa" in a while paragraph you can just:

<Leader>sapleviosar<Enter>leviosa<Enter>

Or you can take advantage of the cursor position to insert the word under with the operator <Leader\>sw and the command line object insertion <C-r\><C-w\>:

<Leader>swap<Enter><C-r><C-w><C-h><Enter>

You may even want to add a colon to all the lines not containing brackets, which you can do with:

<Leader>va{{\|}<Enter>norm A;

Installation

Pathogen:

cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone https://github.com/saulaxel/EXtend.vim'

Other plugin managers:

Add the plugin 'saulaxel/EXtend.vim' with the way specified in the plugin manager. Example:

Plug 'saulaxel/EXtend.vim'

Showcase

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