vim/Keyshort/Text Object/Select and Delete

• Keyshort vim vim/Keyshort vim/Keyshort/Text Object
  • Select the Word Under the Cursor Card
    • Shortcut: viw
    • Description: Visually selects the whole word regardless of where in it the cursor sits. vaw takes the trailing whitespace too, which is what to use when deleting a word from a list.
  • Select Inside Quotes Card
    • Shortcut: vi"
    • Description: Selects the contents of the quoted string without the quotes; va" includes them. Works for ' and ` the same way.
  • Select Inside Brackets Card
    • Shortcut: vi{ braces, vi( parens, vi[ square
    • Description: Selects everything the delimiters enclose, across multiple lines. The a form (va[) includes the delimiters themselves.
  • Select the Current Paragraph Card
    • Shortcut: vip inside, vap around
    • Description: Selects the block of non-blank lines around the cursor. ip stops at the blank line, ap swallows it.
  • Delete Around the Paragraph Card
    • Shortcut: dap
    • Description: The same ap object under the d operator instead of v — deletes the paragraph and its trailing blank line in one stroke.
  • My Note
    • The grammar is the point: <operator><a|i><object>. Any operator (d delete, c change, y yank, = re-indent, v select) composes with any object, so these are five examples of one rule rather than five shortcuts.
    • nvim/Plugin/mini.ai extends the built-in objects with n and l variants — din( deletes inside the next parens, dil( the last — so the cursor no longer has to be inside the object to operate on it.
    • s and S are taken by nvim/Plugin/flash.nvim in my config, so the vanilla s substitute-character command is not available; cl does the same thing.