How do I jump to the start or end of the text I just yanked or changed?
'[ and ']
Vim automatically sets two marks whenever you yank, change, delete, or paste text: ` [ ` (backtick-bracket) marks the start of the affected region, and ] ` mark
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How do I select the text inside quotes?
vi"
The vi" command visually selects all text inside double quotes, without including the quotes themselves.
visual-mode #visual-mode #text-objects #editing #normal-mode
How do I select a word under the cursor in visual mode?
viw
How it works The command viw selects the word under the cursor in visual mode.
How do I visually select an entire sentence in Vim?
vas
The vas command visually selects the current sentence, including surrounding whitespace.
How do I select the contents inside curly braces?
vi{
The vi{ command visually selects everything inside the nearest pair of curly braces {}, without selecting the braces themselves.
visual-mode #visual-mode #text-objects #editing #normal-mode
How do I select an HTML tag and its contents in Vim?
vat
The vat command visually selects the nearest enclosing HTML or XML tag and all of its contents, including the opening and closing tags themselves.
visual-mode #visual-mode #text-objects #editing #normal-mode
How do I quickly change the text between any pair of delimiters?
ci" / ci( / ci{ / ci[ / ci` / ci'
The ci{delimiter} family of commands changes the text inside any matching pair of delimiters.
editing #editing #text-objects #change #delimiters #normal-mode
How do I select or operate on a block of code based on its indentation level in Vim?
ii / ai
The vim-indent-object plugin by Michael Smith adds text objects based on indentation level, giving you ii (inner indent) and ai (an indent) to select, delete, c
How do I select an entire paragraph in Vim?
vip
The vip command visually selects the inner paragraph — all contiguous non-blank lines surrounding the cursor.
visual-mode #visual-mode #text-objects #editing #normal-mode
How do I select the text I just pasted or changed?
`[v`]
The ` [v] sequence visually selects the exact region of text that was last changed, pasted, or yanked into the buffer.
visual-mode #editing #visual-mode #marks #paste #productivity
How do I create custom text objects for my own operator-pending motions?
onoremap ih :<C-u>execute "normal! ?^==\+$\r:noh\rkvg_"<CR>
Vim lets you define custom text objects using operator-pending mode mappings (onoremap) and visual mode mappings (vnoremap).
How do I expand or shrink a visual selection to the next text object boundary?
v + repeated iw/aw/i(/a(/ip/ap
Once you enter visual mode, you can progressively expand your selection by typing increasingly larger text objects.
visual-mode #visual-mode #text-objects #editing #selection #productivity
How do I get improved % matching for language keywords like if/else/endif in Vim?
vim-matchup
The vim-matchup plugin by Andy Massimino is a drop-in replacement for Vim's built-in matchit plugin that supercharges the % key to work with language-specific k
plugins #plugins #matchup #navigation #text-objects #matching