Re:Vim 8.0 is coming
by widdma on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @10:10AM
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The 'a' and 'i' in this context operate on text objects. They're much more powerful than motions. For example, beyond the 'w' for word, there is 'p' for paragraph, '"' for double quotes. All of these allow you to edit the object while the cursor is inside them.
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Interesting. I'd have to use ?" and /" for double quotes, although I do have () and {} for sentences and paragraphs. I'll have to go back to the documentation -- I suppose there's a "whatever is within the current pair of parentheses" text object? I could see using that quite a lot.