deleteto.vim

Introduction

DeleteTo reads a character from the user, then deletes from the beginning of the line up to and including that character.

If you have a tab delimited file, "dU" will delete the first column of data.

See the Workflow section, below, to see what that means.

To improve this plugin, I recommend installing Tim Pope's vim-repeat plugin.

Workflow

Imagine you're working with a list of files:

./deleteto/plugin/deleteto.vim
./deleteto/README.md
./keyword/plugin/keyword.vim
./keyword/README.md

but you'd like a tidier list without the "./" at the beginning. Type: dU/

deleteto/plugin/deleteto.vim
deleteto/README.md
keyword/plugin/keyword.vim
keyword/README.md

Type dU/ again

plugin/deleteto.vim
README.md
plugin/keyword.vim
README.md

Mappings

By default, DeleteTo creates four mappings:

Type	To work on	Calls
dU	All lines	<Plug>DeleteToA
duu	This line	<Plug>DeleteToL
du{motion}	Motion-defined	<Plug>DeleteToM
{visual}du	Visual region	<Plug>DeleteToV

You can disable the default mappings with:

let g:deleteto_create_mappings = 0

Command

The DeleteTo command has the form

:[range]DeleteTo CHAR [COUNT]

Examples

The delimiter will commonly be forward slash, space, comma or tab. However, DeleteTo will work with any character.

Type this	Works on	Delete up to this character
dU/	Whole file	First /
3dU,	Whole file	Third ,
4duu/	One line	Fourth /
vip2du<tab>	Visual - paragraph	Second <tab>
du9j,	Motion - 10 lines	First ,
:DeleteTo /	Whole file	First /
:1,20DeleteTo /	Lines 1-20	First /
:DeleteTo , 4	Whole file	Fourth ,
:argdo DeleteTo / 2	All args, all lines	Second /
:bufdo DeleteTo |	All buffers, all lines	First |

License

Copyright © Richard Russon (flatcap). Distributed under the GPLv3 http://fsf.org/

See also

• flatcap.org
• GitHub