change-inner.el

change-inner gives you vim's ci command, building on expand-region. It is most easily explained by example:

function test() {
  return "semantic kill";
}

With point after the word semantic

• change-inner " would kill the contents of the string
• change-outer " would kill the entire string
• change-inner { would kill the return-statement
• change-outer { would kill the entire block

I use M-i and M-o for this.

Giving these commands a prefix argument C-u means copy instead of kill.

Installation

Start by installing expand-region.

(require 'change-inner)
(global-set-key (kbd "M-i") 'change-inner)
(global-set-key (kbd "M-o") 'change-outer)

It's not working in my favorite mode

That may just be because expand-region needs some love for your mode. Please open a ticket there: https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el

License

Copyright (C) 2011 Magnar Sveen

Author: Magnar Sveen magnars@gmail.com Keywords: convenience, extensions

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.