Overwrite text object with single char

Question

I'm looking for a way to replace the text

print("This is a test")

by

print("**************")

i.e. i want to overwrite every character of a text object (the string inside quotes) or up to a movement command by the same replacement character (asterisk in this case).

What would be the quickest/easiest way to do that?

Answer 1

You can do it with visual selection and than the r command. Like:

vi"r*

-> Visual select the part within the quotes and replace all chars with a *.

For movements I don't know a direct way, but you can do it also via selection:

v3wr*

-> Visual select three words and replace all selected chars with *.