Over It. » Vim http://jason.diamond.name/weblog (a Weblog by Jason Diamond) Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:08:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Selecting element content with Vim http://jason.diamond.name/weblog/2010/05/27/selecting-element-content-with-vim/ http://jason.diamond.name/weblog/2010/05/27/selecting-element-content-with-vim/#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 01:00:38 +0000 Jason Diamond http://jason.diamond.name/weblog/?p=99 When editing an XML file in Vim, I wanted to delete the content of an element so that I could replace it with some completely new text. I thought I could use ct< to change up until the next < character but that didn’t work because the end tag was on a subsequent line.

I learned I could use c/t<CR>, but I use hlsearch and that left me with all of my < characters highlighted. Yuck.

Then I stumbled upon the it motion. A quick cit and all of the content inside the current tag (no matter where the cursor actually is) gets deleted and I’m ready to replace. Perfect!

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