How to select between brackets or quotes or in Vim

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I m sure there used to be a plugin for this kinda stuff  but now that I need it  I can t seem to find it  naturally   so I ll just ask nice and simple   What is the easiest way to select between brackets  or quotes  or generally a list of matching characters      write        a      Computed solution coefficients     For example  here I d like to select  a   or Computed solution coefficients    I m not interested in multiline  just cases which occur on one line

User · Accepted Answer

Use whatever navigation key you want to get inside the parentheses, then you can use either yi( or yi) to copy everything within the matching parens. This also works with square brackets (e.g. yi]) and curly braces. In addition to y, you can also delete or change text (e.g. ci), di]).

I tried this with double and single-quotes and it appears to work there as well. For your data, I do:

write (*, '(a)') 'Computed solution coefficients:'

Move cursor to the C, then type yi'. Move the cursor to a blank line, hit p, and get

Computed solution coefficients:

As CMS noted, this works for visual mode selection as well - just use vi), vi}, vi', etc.

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Use arrows or hjkl to get to one of the bracketing expressions  then v to select visual  i e  selecting  mode  then   to jump to the other bracket

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I would add a detail to the most voted answer   If you re using gvim and want to copy to the clipboard  use      lt command gt   To copy all the content between brackets  or parens or curly brackets   For example    yi  will copy to the clipboard all the content between the curly brackets your cursor is

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I ve made a plugin vim-textobj-quotes  https   github com beloglazov vim-textobj-quotes   It provides text objects for the closest pairs of quotes of any type  Using only iq or aq it allows you to operate on the content of single      double      or back     quotes that currently surround the cursor  are in front of the cursor  or behind  in that order of preference   In other words  it jumps forward or backwards when needed to reach the quotes    It s easier to understand by looking at examples  the cursor is shown with       Before  foo  1   2  3  bar  after pressing diq  foo     bar Before  foo   1  2  3  bar  after pressing diq  foo     bar Before  foo  1  2  3   bar  after pressing diq  foo     bar Before  foo  1   2  3  bar  after pressing daq  foo   bar Before  foo   1  2  3  bar  after pressing daq  foo   bar Before  foo  1  2  3   bar  after pressing daq  foo   bar   The examples above are given for single quotes  the plugin works exactly the same way for double     and back     quotes    You can also use any other operators  ciq  diq  yiq  viq  etc   Please have a look at the github page linked above for more details

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A simple keymap in vim would solve this issue      map viq F   lvf   hh This above command maps viq to the keys to search between quotes  Replace   with any character and create your keymaps  Stick this in vimrc during startup and you should be able to use it everytime

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For selecting within single quotes use vi    For selecting within parenthesis use vi

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Write a Vim function in  vimrc using the searchpair built-in function   searchpair  start    middle    end      flags      skip                  stopline      timeout           Search for the match of a nested start-end pair   This can be     used to find the  endif  that matches an  if   while other     if endif pairs in between are ignored               http   vimdoc sourceforge net htmldoc eval html

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This method of selection is built-in and well covered in the Vim help  It covers XML tags and more   See  help text-objects

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To select between the single quotes I usually do a vi      select inner single quotes     Inside a parenthesis block  I use vib     select inner block    Inside a curly braces block you can use viB   capital B    To make the selections  inclusive   select also the quotes  parenthesis or braces  you can use a instead of i   You can read more about the Text object selections on the manual  or  help text-objects within vim

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