Vim: changing/deleting up to the end of a “block”

Question

When you have a block of text delimitated by brackets or quotes, you can use

ci\"
da(

and so on to change that block of text. But is there a wa

Answer 1

See the "Text object selection" section of the Vim help. You can define the selection sequences there with delete and change operations. It shows how to select blocks delimited by any of the following (and more):

• {}
• ()
• Quotes (' or ")

For example:

d} and c} will delete and change from the cursor to the end of the paragraph.