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Supposing I have my cursor resting somewhere in a bunch of text within quotes, is there a key binding that will mark or highlight just the text within the quotes so I can delete it?
This would be ideal for web-mode. Perhaps, if there's not already an emacs way of doing this, then maybe there's a way of doing in web-mode.
You can use the expand-region or emacs-surround packages to select the text and then delete it.
Watch an intro to expand-region on: Emacs Rocks.
Or take a look at the examples of emacs-surround on its README file.
(defun select-text-in-delimiters ()
"Select text between the nearest left and right delimiters."
(interactive)
(let (start end)
(skip-chars-backward "^<>([{\"'")
(setq start (point))
(skip-chars-forward "^<>)]}\"'")
(setq end (point))
(set-mark start)))
