On Fri, 26 Feb 2021, Joseph Wulf <joseph.c.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've a common problem that I've never been able to find a solution for. ... > With my cursor at "B" how can I delete from the current cursor position > (col 18) to the first double-quote mark (") efficiently?
Delete up to a quote mark later in the line: dt" Delete up to the third quote mark later in the line: d3t" Delete up to a quote mark earlier in the line: dT" Delete up to and including a quote mark: df" Delete up to and including a quote mark earlier in the line: dF" Delete up to and including the second quote mark earlier in the line: d2F" Delete forward using a repeat of last to or including search: d, Delete backward using a repeat of last to or including search: d; Delete to column 40 (either forward or backward): d40| I'm a frequent user of the f/F/t/T motions. Often one or the other is the better choice to use due to frequency of characters used and context. In shell scripting, say, I may want to change {foo} to {bar} and sometimes it will be in single quotes and sometimes double quotes, so I'll use c2fo with the cursor on the {f} and then the . command works properly. Other times I'm changing a bunch of variable names all terminated at the = to new different names, so I'll use ct= first and c; later. Elijah -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/4DnJwm6Pb7zfYm%40panix5.panix.com.