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I often need to edit huge .yaml files, where I need to delete entire maps or arrays.

My current approach is to go into visual (line-wise) mode (Shift + V) and mark the lines manually, but that feels cumbersome compared to editing HTML tags in Vim (e.g. dit)

How can I efficiently delete .yaml elements in Vim?

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Another great use of indent-object: I believe dii or one of the other maps would do it here.

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  • Thanks, I assume there is no Vim native way then, which I would have anticipated, since I often need such functionality on remote systems. Can you describe how to install indent-object as a Vim package? I don't use vim-plug and have no intention to install it.
    – Shuzheng
    Sep 26 '21 at 17:27
  • As a package, you just put the source (or submodule or whatever you want) in ~/.vim/pack/<some arbitrary name>/start/indent-object @Shuzheng
    – D. Ben Knoble ♦
    Sep 26 '21 at 17:57
  • Thanks. By "submodule" you mean git submodule?
    – Shuzheng
    Sep 26 '21 at 18:01
  • Yes; I use git to track files like this so I use submodules to manage packages.
    – D. Ben Knoble ♦
    Sep 26 '21 at 18:01
  • indent-object seems to work very well with .yaml maps, but it fails for arrays, i.e. it's not possible to remove a single array element etc., since indentation for arrays is the same as for the surrounding map
    – Shuzheng
    Sep 26 '21 at 18:11

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