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Nice use of the buffer. Is there a nice hack to remove the parentheses around a word as well?

I guess you could do a similar thing: ci(<backspace><delete><esc>p

ca( would work for this as well.

If you have the cursor just before the area you could do: 'dt)' meaning delete to next ), or 'ct)' to delete until next ) and the drop into insert mode. Learning word objects in Vim for me is one of the killer features, and one thing I miss in Emacs.

Take a look at vim-surround, which adds mappings for a lot of things like this.

Handy trick. Thanks!