Oh! Thank you all! I am so happy!
On Mar 23, 11:14 am, Tim Chase <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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 '<'?
>
> 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:
>
> some teXt <b>bold</b> stuff <a href="">
>
> 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
>
> -tim
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