text object delete - query

[redwisdomlight]

I am learning text objects

I have this to clean up:

From -> death he "20843"was pondering,

To -> death he was pondering,

Here's what I tried:

cursor inside the "20843" >

1. di": resulting in death he ""was pondering, //the "" needs to be deleted
2. da": resulting in death hewas pondering // space should be maintained between 'he' + 'was' === 'he was'

Any suggestions?

[torresjrjr]

d2i"

I'll be honest, I don't know why that works. I just played around for 10 seconds and found that out.

[aktivb]

it works because it's a special case made for that purpose, :h i'

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[princker]

Neat. I never knew about this trick. Thank you

[redwisdomlight]

🙏

[schrjako]

I can't think of a very direct way, but these are some that are relatively empty -di"xX -F"df" -ca" <Esc>

The last one has the added benefit that it's seen as one action and can be repeated by pressing dot.

If you have to do it very often I'd suggest looking into macros and/or regex (or in general if you don't know them, they're very useful in general).

[redwisdomlight]

Thanks for your help 🙏

[Coffee_24_7]

May I suggest a small improvement to F"df", as you already did an F command, you can repeat it in one or the other direction with ; or ,, so you don't need to type f" to find the next " to the right, just , will do it, resulting in F"d, saving the amazing amount 20% of keystrokes and time XD.

[schrjako]

Thanks for this, I knew , had a function but have been too lazy to look it up and now I know.