delete until

[Mathieu Roux]

Hello,
If i want to delete on my current line until say "a", i can do dfa.
If i do that, "a" is deleted.
Is there any command do delete strictly before a?
For exemple, if i am on the beginning of the line:
"star", i want to obtain "ar", and "not "r".

:he search-commands
did not give me the answer.

Best regards,
Mathieu Roux

[Stefan Klein]

Hi,

Am Sa., 18. Mai 2019 um 17:27 Uhr schrieb Mathieu Roux <mth...@gmail.com>:

If i want to delete on my current line until say "a", i can do dfa.

[ ... ]

"star", i want to obtain "ar", and "not "r".

i guess you're looking for t(o) instead of f(orward)

regards,

Stefan

 

[Grant Taylor]

On 5/18/19 9:34 AM, Stefan Klein wrote:
> i guess you're looking for t(o) instead of f(orward)

Agreed.

I've frequently seen it referred as (un)t(il). (I think that's what I
see in vim :help.)

[Mathieu Roux]

Thanks! that is exactly what i want!

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[Mathieu Roux]

hmmmm....

and how can i say?: go to the next /, and if you don't find it, go to
the next '

For exemple, if i am at the beginning of the string
'abc/def/ghi',
it should go to /
and if i am on "g" on the same string, it should go to '

In fact i want to map this command to <F5>.

map <F5> f('|/)v0*

quelque chose comme ça...

Best regards,
Mathieu Roux

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[Tim Chase]

On 2019-05-19 19:21, Mathieu Roux wrote:
> and how can i say?: go to the next /, and if you don't find it, go
> to the next '
>
> For exemple, if i am at the beginning of the string

> 'abc/def/ghi',and some /

> it should go to /
> and if i am on "g" on the same string, it should go to '
>
> In fact i want to map this command to <F5>.
>
> map <F5> f('|/)v0*

Might try something like this?

nnoremap <f5> /\%#.\(.\{-}\/\<bar>[^\/]*'\)/e<cr>

-tim

[Tim Chase]

The way you described the problem, it sounded like you wanted to
go forward to the next slash even if there was an intervening "'"
char:

this 'is/a/firstpath' and this 'is/another/path'

where, if your cursor was on the "f" of "firstpath", you wanted to
jump to the next slash (after the second "is") instead of the
single-quote at the end of "firstpath". So that's what the solution
in my previous email does. However, if you just want a "go to the
next slash-or-single-quote, whichever is next" it's a lot tidier:

nnoremap <f5> /[/']/<cr>

-tim

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[Mathieu Roux]

Wonderful!

This is exactly what i wanted...

map <f5> /[/']/<cr>hvF'*

Thanks a lot !

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