Support for evil-exchange / vim-exchange

[thomasheartman]

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Describe the feature

I'd love to be able to exchange things in vim mode, similar to how evil-exchange works.

Presumably, this is also how vim-exchange works, although I've only used the Emacs version. The bindings appear to be different (I think I prefer the evil bindings), but that can be reassigned by the user, so it's not particularly important, I think.

In essence, it allows you to (using evil bindings), gx a motion or object to store it in an exchange register. The next time you gx something outside of your original selection, those to selections change place. gX clears the register.

E.g., with | as a caret:

This is an ex|ample.
This is a line.

gxiw puts example into the exchange register.

This is an example.
This is a li|ne.

gxiw swaps line and example because example was in the register:

This is an line.
This is a example.

The motions / selections don't have to be the same. It'd be helpful if the selection in the exchange register remained highlighted in some way until the exchange has taken place.

Zed Version and System Specs

Zed: v0.167.1 (Zed)
OS: macOS 14.6.1
Memory: 16 GiB
Architecture: aarch64

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