Changing within special characters

Now, it’s not often that we want to just delete the content within special characters. Usually, we want to change the content — as in, get rid of the old stuff and put something new in its place.

Luckily, Vim has commands that help us. Recall that di" deletes inside the current quoted content. ci" will also delete inside the current quoted content, but it’ll drop you into insert mode straight afterwards. So, you can type ci", then just start typing the replacement text.

The mnemonic here is “change inside something”

Of course, this works for brackets, braces, and square brackets too. Give it a try in the editor!