Inconsistent behavior when changing inside of a text object.

[J.F.]

I assume this question is answered elsewhere, but I'm having trouble formulating a question to type into a search engine. I can only think of an example...

Consider the line below:

I am [so darned] "cool"...

Positioning the cursor on 'I' and typing the mapping 'ci"' will delete "cool" and put me inside the quotes in Insert mode. However, typing "ci[" when positioned on the 'I' won't perform similarly.

Is there a reason for this inconsistency?

I'm currently using Vim 7.4.

[Paul]

On Saturday, 07 January, 2017 at 16:02:45 GMT, J.F. wrote:
>Consider the line below:
>
> I am [so darned] "cool"...
>
>Positioning the cursor on 'I' and typing the mapping 'ci"' will delete "cool" and put me inside the quotes in Insert mode. However, typing "ci[" when positioned on the 'I' won't perform similarly.
>
>Is there a reason for this inconsistency?

I don't know the reason, but https://github.com/wellle/targets.vim will do it.

[J.F.]

Thank you, Jan!

I wasn't aware of this plugin. What a magnificent find!

Best,
JF