Text Objects

define regions of text by structure. It allow us to operate on the regions of text that they delimit.

vi}

Vim initiates Visual mode and then selects all of the characters contained by the {} braces. Where the cursor is positioned to begin with doesn't matter so long as it's located somewhere inside a block of curly braces when the i} text object is invoked.

a"

selects a range of characters delimited by double quotes.

i: select inside the delimiters.(inside) a: select everything including the delimiters.(around/all)

Note:

Text objects are not motions themselves: we can not use them to navigate around the document. we can use them in Visual mode and in Operator-Pending mode.

Remember this: whenever you see {motion} as part of the syntax for a command, you can also use a text object. Common examples include d{motion}, c{motion}, y{motion}.

ci": change inside the double quotes. cit: change inside the tag. yit: yank the text from inside the tag. dit: delete the text from inside the tag.

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