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Re:Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust by pigcat on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:25AM (#33152574)
what does `ci"` do in vim? I'm decent with vim, but it didn't make sense to me - then I tried it and it didn't do anything.
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Re:Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust by torarvid on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:41AM (#33152809)
Change inside doublequotes. You can also do `ci{` or similar to Change inside curly-braces or `di[` to Delete inside square brackets
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Re:Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust by thegeomaster on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:41AM (#33152799)
Deletes text inside the nearest quotes and puts you in insert mode. You probably tried it without being inside a quoted string, that's why it did nothing.
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Re:Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust by exDM69 on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:50AM (#33152926)
Cursor needs to be between double quotes (e.g. inside string literal) for ci" to work. See `:help text-objects`.
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Re:Helix: A Neovim inspired editor, written in Rust by Agentlien on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:57AM (#33153025)
ci is "change inner ..."

If we use | to mark our cursor, and you have your cursor inside quote: '"he|re"'

ci" would replace everything inside giving you '"|"' and putting you in insert mode.

cab would aso remove the quotation marks and give you '|'

With ce or cw you'd get '"he"' and cE or cW would give you '"he'

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