Questions tagged [object-motions]
Question about text object motions
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Is there a way to "move to the beginning of the next text object"?
Suppose I have a defined text object. For example, I have a ii text block which defines all the contiguous lines around the cursor at the same level of indentation or deeper. I know what it means to, ...
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How can I shift only inner contents of HTML element?
How can I quickly shift only inner contents of HTML tag X, when they are on separate lines to the opening and closing X tag? Example below: I want to shift only 2 lines with <p> tags when the ...
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Why does replace not accept a motion?
A lot of operator like delete, change, indent, switch-case accept a motion to apply on.
For example, let say I want to replace the current word with all letter a, I do:
viwra
Compared to the ...
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Why does dt$ not delete until the end of line?
I understand that the right way to delete until the end of line is d$, but why does dt$ not work also?
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How can I delimit sentences by carriage return?
I write screenplays with fountain. Dialogue syntax looks like this:
THE TERMINATOR
Hasta la vista. Baby.
I would like to be able to select the sentence: Hasta la vista., without also selecting THE ...
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delete from current position to end of paragraph when using hard wrap
i use hard wrap (in my vimrc: setl fo+=atw).
I often want to delete from the middle of some row to the end of the paragraph. I do this as follows: d$, j (down one line), 5dd (if there are 5 subsequent ...
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How to join lines within a block with `J`?
I want to join all the lines within a {} block.
{
'a': 1,
'b': 2,
'c': 3,
}
⬇︎
{ 'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3, }
Since J doesn't take a range, like d or c, the best command I found to do this is ...
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Why doesn't Vim recognize a pair of <\> as a single unit?
I'm kind of confused about why doesn't Vim accept di> operation on this piece of text:
<This is a random text but has a backslash at the end\>
but rather does on this:
<This is a text with ...
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How to select/delete/yank the contents of only the current fold?
When using foldmethod=marker, how do you select or reference exactly the contents of the current fold? I want to swap the order of two folds. If they were paragraphs, I would do dap { p. However, I ...
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Remap standard motions
I have a file formatted like this
+---------------------------------+
| Text text text |
| Text text text |
| Text text text |
+---------------------...
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Why doesn't gJip turn a paragraph into a line?
Is there a good reason why gJip doesn't turn a paragraph into a line?
If not, how could I make it work that way?
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Word motion and dots behaves differently in bash scripts
If I have a test.py and a word with dots, w motion goes through each "subword".
If I have a test.sh and the same word with dots, w skips the dots.
How do I debug this to know what is causing this ...
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Abort an operating pending mapping
When creating an operator pending mapping in vim, it is possible make the mapping work on an arbitrary (consecutive) piece of text.
I am looking for a way to abort the operation. For the case of ...
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The default behavior of "di("
As is well known, di( deletes the contents inside a () block. When the cursor is not within a group of (), the cursor jumps to the near () group and delete the contents in it.
Is there any way to ...
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How do I move by paragraphs, but end up *in* the paragraph?
So I often use repeated invocations of gqip to re-wrap paragraphs of text or comments.
Unfortunately, the quickest way I've memorized for moving between paragraphs, }, lands me between them:
Qui⁁ut ...
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Automatically jump to text object during `ci(`
Suppose my cursor is at the beginning of the line of code:
def f(a, b, c, d, e):
If I want to change inside the parenthesis using the text object command ci(, I need to first navigate to some ...
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"Visual around two Words"?
If I type 2daW, I can delete the current Word and the next (though I can't really see that case covered in the manual).
Is there a way to visual-select around two words? I tried 2vaW, but of course (...
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Is there a motion to select the comment block under the cursor?
One thing that I often need to do is reformat a code comment with gq or gw. For example, I often want to convert something like this:
// Lorem ipsum
// dolor
// sir
// amet
int foo(int x) {
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Is there a text object or motion for non-comment lines are not separated from comment lines by blank lines? E.g., in git commit messages
Consider the text
A
B
# C
# D
Is there a text object or motion that will select lines A and B if the cursor is on either, but not select lines C and D? ap or ip with the cursor on any of those four ...
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Make { ( and ) } normal mode motions skip blank lines
Normal mode ) } and ( { navigate paragraphs and lines but they don't skip blank lines. (They land on them.)
This is obviously the preferable behavior when writing code, but when writing "normal&...
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Interaction of object-select with double quotes
I'm trying to understand logic of text-object-selection in the presence of double qoutes. In the following lines * denotes cursor position, // denotes my comments.
a"b(c*d)e"f //di) deletes ...
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text object for highlighted text
If I have a file that contains
this_is_the_first_underscore_phrase
this_is_the_first_underscore_phrase
I search for "first" /first and my cursor is placed onto the start of the word "first".
I know ...
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Difference between dap and dip (and inner paragraph)
I have memorized dip as the command to delete a paragraph. However, I now see that dap is also a thing.
The docs say:
"dip" delete inner paragraph
"dap" delete a paragraph
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make da( or dab remove lagging whitespace like daw
TL;DR: da( doesn't delete the following space like daw does. Can I make this do what I want easily?
I have some sample lines (cursor is shown as |):
1. Sample line (extraneous| statement) in notes.
2. ...
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Motions for selecting code statements?
Let's say I have a line of lua like this:
vim.keymap.set("n", "<D-BS>", function() vim.cmd(":!trash '%'") vim.cmd("bprev|bd#") end)
How could I select ...
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Changing content within the specified [count] number of braces for each line
I need to change the content within a [count] number of braces for each line in my buffer.
1 {Lorem} ipsum dolor {amet} blah blah {change this text} more blah blah
2 Hello. The {sun} rises in {the} ...
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<esc>v$ without trailing space?
I want to use $ in visual mode but it always includes a trailing space (even if there isn't one on the line).
How do I make it so $ only goes to the actual last letter?
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Inner-object possibilities
What are the possible uses of the inner-something command in vim? For example, the following three items work:
ci) in ("hello")
ci' in 'hello'
ci] in ([var])
But the following two do not:
ci# in # ...
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visual line mode is ended by inner block motion
When I do Vi{y to select inside a { block and yank it, it doesn't paste how I expect.
I noticed that after V (which puts me into VISUAL-LINE mode), the i{ object takes me into VISUAL mode.
Here's a ...
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onoremap: defining a bounded region
I want to craft a custom operator-pending motion if for functions in R language that look like this:
doSomething <- function(arg1, arg2, ...) {
doStuff(...)
}
The idea is to be able to press ...
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Act on lines changed by previous command
Is there a way to target the set of lines changed in the previous command? Say I do a search and replace, bulk indent, or some other command that affects either a series or scattered collection of ...
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Use textobject selection with nnoremap
I hope this is not an XY problem, but I need the following thing: I have parameterized markdown fences (in vimwiki), i.e:
```c
int a = 5;
printf("%d", 5 <++>)
```
So my idea is when ...
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Setting change/visual marks with empty inner motion in custom text objects
This has been discussed on Vim’s issue tracker.
By default for the default builtin motions where the 'indside' of a text object is empty - such as double quote (say we have the following text "&...
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Paragraph motions in single-line buffer
This question looks at how paragraph motions behave when the buffer consists of only two lines. But what if the buffer has just one line?
Both { and } move the cursor to the last character of the line,...
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How to do a motion without leaving history (in .)?
Often, you do a complicated motion, which you want to repeat soon by pressing . but carry out a simpler motion overwrites that one. Can I keep that complicated motion in . itself ?
Concrete example:
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Vim Text object and parentheses [duplicate]
I have a trouble with text objects and parentheses.
For example with this sentence:
<bla bla="test">(hello)</bla>
With the cursor at the beginning of the line, when I use ci" ("change ...
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How to customize object-motions?
Text object motions are useful to move around in a file. Although these motion commands were specifically created for text (novel) writers, they can also be used in C source code.
The commands gd and ...
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How to create a lua function that gets called for a vim (neovim) motion
Vim has the concept of actions, which can act on text objects via motions.
For example diw will delete (the action) the inner word (the motion).
I want to create a function that can be applied/...
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How to select a whole line except beginning tab/space and last enter?
I'm dealing with the following text and want to select "abc def":
123
abc def
456_4
I've tried viw but it can only select a whole word isolated by spaces, and v$ starting with ...
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How can I create a text object for a Python block comment?
Suppose I have some Python code with a “block comment” (i.e. multiple consecutive comment lines) in the middle of a paragraph:
a = function1()
# Remember: if you pass an even number to function2, ...
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Defining custom motions to be used with operators?
For instance, I want to press an operator like yank change or delete, followed a macro that triggers :HopWord from hop.nvim which puts hints on words, I select a hint to navigate that word, then ...
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Motions for moving to the middle of text objects like words, lines and paragraphs?
I can use 0 and $ to move to the start and end of the line, and w and b to move between words, but what about moving to the middle of words and lines?
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Extract JavaScript variable (feature example): how to improve it?
I am a Vim newbie with one week experience and I'm already enjoying it.
I've successfully written an (ugly) command+function+mapping with which I can extract some code to a new variable in JavaScript....
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