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Re:Vim clutch by orthecreedence on Thursday June 21, 2012 @02:07PM (#4143364)
Wow cit...I've been wondering if this exists for a year now. I remember reading about it when I first started learning vim but it somehow eluded me afterwards. Thanks!

I use ci{ all the time for functions and CSS. It's like magic. Whenever I'm using something like nano, I'll instinctively type what looks like a long string of gibberish: "jjjddo [oh crap] <bs><bs>..."

Once you really start getting used to the language, it makes it frustrating to use anything else.

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Re:Vim clutch by lloeki on Thursday June 21, 2012 @03:57PM (#4143914)
> Wow cit...I've been wondering if this exists for a year now

Then marvel at vim-surround: cs"', cs)(, or cst<foo>, or (Shift-)v select visually S <mytag>, and argtextobj: cia and daa. Those are the two plugins that I really miss on a stock vim.

[0] https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround.git [1] https://github.com/vim-scripts/argtextobj.vim

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Re:Vim clutch by weaksauce on Thursday June 21, 2012 @02:30PM (#4143486)
> Once you really start getting used to the language, it makes it frustrating to use anything else.

Indeed... That is why I have been contributing to Xvim[1] for Xcode it's so nice to have vim bindings in Xcode.

[1] https://github.com/JugglerShu/XVim

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