delete inside parentheses VIM?

[Antonio Recio]

Do you know how it is possible to delete the parentheses and the inside parentheses?

[Antonio Recio]

"dab" it is useful to remove parentheses and content when cursor is over, I think. But I want to delete all the parentheses and the inside the parentheses with an unique commmand.

[Tony Mechelynck]

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dab (which is a single command; you could also use da( or da) ) works
with the cursor anywhere between the ( and ) inclusive; if there are
nested parentheses it will delete the innermost () block containing the
cursor: example: (where ^ marks the cursor location and - what is
deleted; please view this in a fixed font)

aaa(bbb(ccc(ddd))efg)
--^---------------
-^--------
--^--
--------------^---

IIUC, when used with a count (i.e., d2ab d3ab etc.) it will delete that
many nested blocks containing the cursor.

To delete from the first ( to the last ) on a line you could use
:s/(.*)// but with no guarantee that those brackets will be matching
ones; or you could place your cursor on one of the brackets and use d%
to delete everything up to its mate (inclusive).

Best regards,
Tony.
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[Tim Chase]

On 05/28/2011 11:01 PM, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 29/05/11 05:11, Antonio Recio wrote:
>> "dab" it is useful to remove parentheses and content when
>> cursor is over, I think. But I want to delete all the
>> parentheses and the inside the parentheses with an unique
>> commmand.
>

> IIUC, when used with a count (i.e., d2ab d3ab etc.) it will
> delete that many nested blocks containing the cursor.

In addition, there are other variants which I prefer to use to
explicitly tell vim that I want parens, instead of some generic
block, so I tend to almost exclusively use

i( or a(
i{ or a{
i[ or a[

instead of the "ib"/"ab" text objects. The combination of which
I use almost as much as just the

i" or a"
i' or a'

quotation text objects :)

-tim

[Ben Schmidt]

In the whole file?

This could work if they're not nested and not split across lines:

:%s/(.{-})//

I.e. change an opening parenthesis followed by as little as possible to
get to the next closing parenthisis, into nothing.

If that's not good enough, but the right kind of direction, I'm sure
some wizards here can extend it.

Smiles,

Ben.