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by hammerandtongs 3378 days ago
As far as I remember you are foregoing text objects which are really one of the most powerful things in vim.

http://blog.carbonfive.com/2011/10/17/vim-text-objects-the-d...

Ironically I think most of the IDE (ie intellij etc) vim plugins have them while you do not.

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Yeah, I'm aware of text objects (I used vim for years). I don't miss them as much as I thought I would. Most of them can be replaced by compositions of the primitive motion commands. Heck, you could probably even outright replace them with macros. I just haven't felt the need to.
TIL that there are text objects for tags. Thanks!