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Given the following (cursor at |), how can I delete the text , int b? 

foo(int a|, int b);

I was hoping to find a motion similar to how "inner" works (eg d i b), but which only captures the right-hand side from the current position.

d f ) also captures the found character, and I wanted to use this with all the usual motions.

Update: d t ) does what I want in this case, but only works on the current line, so I would still like to know if there is a general motion to go the end of what can be done with the inside motion.

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    dt) can work across the current line after customizing evil-cross-lines.
    – wasamasa
    Dec 21 '17 at 17:02
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d ] ) should do what you're looking for evil-next-close-paren

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  • I guess this is as good as it gets, but it doesn't work with d ] } for example.
    – altschuler
    Dec 21 '17 at 13:33
  • @altschuler yeah, that appears to be missing. You can do d i } but that removes everything between the curly braces.
    – Anntoin Wilkinson
    Dec 21 '17 at 14:43
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The answer can also in part depend on the major mode: in modes using SMIE for their indentation needs (e.g. Octave, SML, Prolog, Ruby, CSS), there's a good chance that kill-sexp (by default bound to C-M-k, no idea what that translates into for Evil) would do the trick (and in a case like (int a|, int b, int c) it would also kill , int b).

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  • kill-sexp does something slightly different, it doesn't work with nested parens, so eg foo(1|, bar(2)) deletes only , bar, where d ] ) deletes , bar(2).
    – altschuler
    Dec 21 '17 at 13:35
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    @altschuler: You're mistaken: in SMIE-based modes it works differently. But yes, in c-mode it works the way you describe (and actually even in sm-c-mode, which is based on SMIE, it also behaves the way you describe, since I had to disable that part of SMIE there because I had to use too many hacks which make it work OK for indentation but not for navigation).
    – Stefan
    Dec 21 '17 at 13:36

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