Inside pairs: ci" ci( ci{ — Vim

i means inside, a means around. di" leaves you an empty pair of quotes to type into; da" takes the quotes with it. Same letter pair for ( ) { } [ ] and every other delimiter.

Vim Inside pairs: ci" ci( ci{

intermediate » Change the text inside the quotes to alice.

goal

name = "alice"

scratch.txt

1 name = "bob"

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keys

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