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Re:My biggest problem with Vim by dhimes on Friday August 10, 2012 @11:48AM (#4366642)
and ct" will change everything up to the double quote. Great stuff.
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Re:My biggest problem with Vim by ehamberg on Friday August 10, 2012 @11:53AM (#4366688)
Look up text objects such as i" and a". They're great.

E.g:

- ci" (change inner double quote) will change (delete and put you in insert mode) the text between to double quotes.

- ca" (change _a_ double quote) will change the text and the surrounding double quotes.

There are text objects for quotes, brackets, sentences, blocks, etc. There are also plugins that create text objects such as arguments (to functions) in programming languages.

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Re:My biggest problem with Vim by saraid216 on Friday August 10, 2012 @12:14PM (#4366802)
I believe the 'a' is short for 'around'.
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Re:My biggest problem with Vim by graywh on Friday August 10, 2012 @01:14PM (#4367136)
The :help disagrees. All i* text-objects are "inner " and a text-objects are "a *".
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