Surround: Keep HTML attributes when changing tags

[wmaurer]

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Feature request:
I'd like to be able to use surround to change a tag, but keeping the existing attributes.
This functionality exists in the official vim-surround:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/31098722/664533
tpope/vim-surround#131

e.g.

<h2 class="foo>b*ar</h2>

cstth3> - changes h2 to h3, removes attributes - current behaviour
cstth3 ENTER - changes h2 to h3, keeps class attribute

Apart from that, VSCodeVim surround is great!

[knpwrs]

Asciinema recording of the desired behavior: https://asciinema.org/a/miZYWNYNIYFQTcDDifXgMtBW6

[dum3ng]

I think this is a very useful feature when editing html and jsx code.
But after years this has not been added.
Hope you can add this feature someday.

[esetnik]

I would love this too. In my opinion tag replacement should by default preserve attributes. It's rare for me that I want to replace tags and simultaneously wipe the attributes.