[mini.ai] Selecting to next closing bracket/closing quote

[garymh]

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Hi! Is there a way to define a custom textobject that will go from the current cursor position to the next closing quote?

For example, if I have the string "hellothere" and | is the cursor:

"hello|there"

Is there something I could set a textobject Q to such that typing dQ would result in:

"hello"

[krovuxdev]

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by adding dQ, but you could try using dt" to delete up to the next quote, cw or dw to delete words. If you're looking to delete everything inside the quotes and enter insert mode, ci" would work.

[garymh]

@krovuxdev Right, but I wanted to use mini.ai's wildcards like q to match any quote. ex:

"this is |a longer sentence" and 'this is |a longer sentence'. using dg]q below as Evgeni mentioned works for this 😄

[echasnovski]

Hi! Is there a way to define a custom textobject that will go from the current cursor position to the next closing quote?

For example, if I have the string "hellothere" and | is the cursor:

"hello|there"

Is there something I could set a textobject Q to such that typing dQ would result in:

"hello"

For this particular case there are goto_left and goto_right mappings. They can be used like dg]q to delete until right side of q textobject (using " here is also possible). This works with any textobject: f, ), etc., which it makes pretty handy.

Using t/T operator is also a good advice.

Other than that, yes it is possible in theory to define this type of textobject, but I wouldn't recommend doing that given mentioned alternatives.

[garymh]

@echasnovski ah, that's perfect! dg]q is what I had in mind. I wanted the wildcard to match any quote instead of just explicitly doing ". Thank you!! 😄