visual select entire string enclosed in double quotes that contains newlines

[Joshua Dennis]

I have tried unsuccessfully to find a way in vim to visual select an entire string enclosed in double quotes that contains new lines.  Anyone know of a way to do this? (while in vim vi"  is close, but it won't span new lines)

I'm starting to use dbext.vim more and more and if I can find a way to do this it will help me be more efficient.

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[Paul-425]

On Friday, 22 June, 2012 at 21:41:01 BST, Joshua Dennis wrote:
>I have tried unsuccessfully to find a way in vim to visual select an entire string enclosed in double quotes that contains new lines.  Anyone know of a way to do this? (while in vim vi"  is close, but it won't span new lines)

It's not entirely what you're after but the SyntaxMotion script can kind of help: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2965

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[Lucas Hoffmann]

On 23. Jun 2012, at 19:23, Paul wrote:

On Friday, 22 June, 2012 at 21:41:01 BST, Joshua Dennis wrote:
> I have tried unsuccessfully to find a way in vim to visual select an entire string enclosed in double quotes that contains new lines.  Anyone know of a way to do this? (while in vim vi"  is close, but it won't span new lines)

It's not entirely what you're after but the SyntaxMotion script can kind of help: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2965

Have you tried this (assuming your curser is on the first double quote): v/"<CR>
This starts visual mode and searches for the next double quote. If you have backslash-escaped double quotes in the string you can use: v/[^\\]"<CR>l
Note: Do not type the escape sequence "<CR>" but hit enter instead (type it if you want to define a mapping for this)


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[Chris Collision]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Paul <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On Friday, 22 June, 2012 at 21:41:01 BST, Joshua Dennis wrote:
>>
>> I have tried unsuccessfully to find a way in vim to visual select an
>> entire string enclosed in double quotes that contains new lines.  Anyone
>> know of a way to do this? (while in vim vi"  is close, but it won't span new
>> lines)
>
>
> It's not entirely what you're after but the SyntaxMotion script can kind of
> help: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2965
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I would just put the cursor on the first " and type v/".  Perhaps this
is too basic for your needs, though.

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[Joshua Dennis]

On Saturday, June 23, 2012 2:04:59 PM UTC-4, Lucas Hoffmann wrote:

> On 23. Jun 2012, at 19:23, Paul wrote:
>
> On Friday, 22 June, 2012 at 21:41:01 BST, Joshua Dennis wrote:
> > I have tried unsuccessfully to find a way in vim to visual select an entire string enclosed in double quotes that contains new lines.  Anyone know of a way to do this? (while in vim vi"  is close, but it won't span new lines)
>
> It's not entirely what you're after but the SyntaxMotion script can kind of help: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2965
>
> Have you tried this (assuming your curser is on the first double quote): v/"<CR>
> This starts visual mode and searches for the next double quote. If you have backslash-escaped double quotes in the string you can use: v/[^\\]"<CR>l
> Note: Do not type the escape sequence "<CR>" but hit enter instead (type it if you want to define a mapping for this)

Yes, this works!  Thank you.   I never thought to go about it that way.

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