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Re:Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (... by stcont on Thursday March 11, 2021 @11:02PM (#26432086)
To add to this ci works for all sorts of things like [ { < “ ‘ etc.

There’s also di (delete in) and vi (visual select in) and probably a ton of others that I don’t know about. I’ll never know all of the wonderful ways to use vim

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Re:Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (... by bobbyi_settv on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:43AM (#26433193)
ci also can take a number for nesting level. For example, c2i( will change within the second level of surrounding parens rather than the innermost
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Re:Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (... by yesbabyyes on Friday March 12, 2021 @01:14AM (#26432680)
And cit inside (html, xml) tags. And then there's a for around -- cat, daw, >a{...
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