# Swap Occurrences Of Two Words Imagine I have a file with `foo` and `bar` all over the place. The tables have turned and now I want all occurrences of `foo` to be `bar` and all occurrences of `bar` to be `foo`. Reaching for a simple substitution won't work because after flipping all the occurrences of `foo` to `bar`. I will no longer be able to distinguish between the new `bar`s and the `bar`s that need to be flipped. [Abolish.vim](https://github.com/tpope/vim-abolish) enhances Vim's substitution capabilities making it easy to flip these strings in one relatively simple command. ``` :%S/{foo,bar}/{bar,foo}/g ``` Notice the uppercase `S` as well as the ordering of `foo` and `bar` in the before and after sequences.