How to delete from the current cursor position to a particular character on the same line?

[Joseph Wulf]

I've a common problem that I've never been able to find a solution for.

With a sample script line like the following:

 printf "A(%14s), B(%s), C(%14s), D(%14s), E(%14s), F(%3s), G(%-24s), H(%4s), I(%14s), J(%s),", "${x01}","${x02}","${x03}","${x04}","${x05}","${x06}","${x07}","${x08}","${x09}","${x10}"

With my cursor at "B" how can I delete from the current cursor position (col 18) to the first double-quote mark (") efficiently?

Thank you.

[Tony Mechelynck]

Moving to the next " is f" and the f motion is |inclusive| so df" should do it.

See ":help f" (without the quotes).

Best regards,
Tony.

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[Suresh Govindachar]

On 2/26/2021 7:35 AM, Joseph Wulf wrote:
> I've a common problem that I've never been able to find a solution for.

> ...
> ... how can I delete from the current cursor position ... to the first

> double-quote mark (") efficiently?

In normal mode, consider "deleting with motion": dt" or df"

--Suresh

[Joseph Wulf]

That surely does it.  Thank you both, very much.

[Eli the Bearded]

On Fri, 26 Feb 2021, Joseph Wulf <joseph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've a common problem that I've never been able to find a solution for.
...

> With my cursor at "B" how can I delete from the current cursor position
> (col 18) to the first double-quote mark (") efficiently?

Delete up to a quote mark later in the line:
dt"

Delete up to the third quote mark later in the line:
d3t"

Delete up to a quote mark earlier in the line:
dT"

Delete up to and including a quote mark:
df"

Delete up to and including a quote mark earlier in the line:
dF"

Delete up to and including the second quote mark earlier in the line:
d2F"

Delete forward using a repeat of last to or including search:
d,

Delete backward using a repeat of last to or including search:
d;

Delete to column 40 (either forward or backward):
d40|

I'm a frequent user of the f/F/t/T motions. Often one or the other is
the better choice to use due to frequency of characters used and
context.

In shell scripting, say, I may want to change {foo} to {bar} and
sometimes it will be in single quotes and sometimes double quotes, so
I'll use c2fo with the cursor on the {f} and then the . command works
properly.

Other times I'm changing a bunch of variable names all terminated at
the = to new different names, so I'll use ct= first and c; later.

Elijah

[JB]

Your {foo} to {bar} example has a more-efficient solution:

ci{

"Change inside curly-braces."

Works for quotation marks and brackets, too:

ci" or ci' or ci[ or ci<

You can be on either of the grouping characters or anywhere inside them.

Also, your ct= can be replaced with ce ("Change to end") using default delimiter chars.


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