Re: How to delete from the current cursor position to a particular character on the same line?

Your {foo} to {bar} example has a more-efficient solution:

ci{

"Change inside curly-braces."

Works for quotation marks and brackets, too:

ci" or ci' or ci[ or ci<

You can be on either of the grouping characters or anywhere inside them.

Also, your ct= can be replaced with ce ("Change to end") using default delimiter chars.


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On Friday, February 26, 2021 11:04 AM, Eli the Bearded <vim@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Feb 2021, Joseph Wulf joseph.c.wulf@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

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