Am 23.03.2009 16:03, mathneuro schrieb: > Hello, I was wondering if anyone had an clever (or non-clever) ways of > deleting from the cursor to the next instance of a pattern. Perhaps > it's easier to illustrate by example. For instance, if I have the line > of text: > > This is a line of text for an example for the <a href="http:// > www.vim.org">vim</a>. > > If my cursor is at, say, the beginning and my task is to delete > everything until the 'a' tag, I can use d11w or hold down 'x' or do a > number of other things, but is there a way to tell vim, delete from > here to the character '<'? > [...]
dt< or if you want to delete the '<' too then use df< Read :help motion.txt But this only works for single characters. If you want to delete up to a specific string you can use v to enter visual mode, search the string with / and then use d. HTH, Dennis Benzinger --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
