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> 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 '<'?
You mean
dt<
you'll want to read up at
:help f
and following (f/F/t/T/;/,)
You can also do more complex searches:
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If your cursor is on the X, you can either use
d3t<
to delete to the 3rd "<", or
d/<a
d/<a/s-
(depending on how far you want to go ":help {offset}")
to force deletion to the "<a" match (which even works across
multiple lines).
There are all sorts of crazy motions you can use:
:help motion.txt
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