htmlvimsurround

Change HTML tag in vim, but keeping the attributes (surround)

Let's say I have a tag (and cursor at *):

<h1 class="blah" id="moo">H*ello!</h1>

I want to change it to:

*<h2 class="blah" id="moo">Hello</h2>

i.e. Change the type of tag, but keep all the elements.

Using surround.vim, I could do:

cst<h2>

but that changes the HTML to:

*<h2>Hello</h2>

Is just changing the tag possible, but keeping all the attributes? Surround documentation doesn't seem to contain anything like this...

Solution

  • I have xml.vim plugin (https://github.com/othree/xml.vim) . If you had it too, your requirement is rather easy.

    Just move cursor to tag, press <leader>c (lowercase c), then input new tagname, only tag name will be changed.

    If you press <leader>C (Big C), also rename the tag/element, but also original attributes are removed.