Mac – Emacs equivalent to VIM ci”

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Does emacs have the equivalent of VIMs ci" command? Basically I want to replace the text inside a set of quotation marks.

In vim I can ci) or ci] or ci} to "change inner *"…

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Off the top of my head, the closest command is M-z " which deletes everything from point to the next occurance of the " character.

There is also C-M-k, aka "kill balanced expression", which will delete a full parenthesized statement or double quoted string etc. based on the current modes definition of "balanced expression" and the character currently under point (ie. it only works if the cursor is on the opening '"' or '(' etc.).

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I actually figured this one out on my own. This is supported in vim natively if you use the --remote option. Ex:

gvim --remote foo.txt

You can also specify a server name:

gvim --remote foo.txt --servername foo

I added the following function to my .zshrc (but it should work in bash as well) to make this a bit easier:

function vs() {
    gvim --remote-silent $@
}

This way, all you have to type in is vs <filename>.

Why is there a difference between edit inside ” and ( in Vim

Following a quick look at the documentation (help v_aquote, help v_iquote), I am inclined to say that this is a bug in ci", rather than a deficiency in ci(. The observed ci( behaviour is consistent with ci{ and ci[.

That said, you can get the desired behaviour of ci( with this mapping:

nnoremap ci( f(ci(

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--- (This question has been migrated to superuser, which I am not a member of)

The following function/mapping has different behaviour depending on whether a preceding ( is detected. It solves the (a) (b) problem with my original mapping (as pointed out in the comments). It still may not be perfect though...

function New_cib()
    if search("(","bn") == line(".")
        sil exe "normal! f)ci("
        sil exe "normal! l"
        startinsert
    else
        sil exe "normal! f(ci("
        sil exe "normal! l"
        startinsert
    endif
endfunction

nnoremap ci( :call New_cib()<CR>
nnoremap cib :call New_cib()<CR>

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