(Gvim) How to delete a certain pattern which is embraced by certain characters

Question

I like to delete all characters embraced by "[" and "]" including these embracing characters. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Believe it or not, da[. Read :help text-objects to find out why, and what other kinds of regions you can use in this way (some other useful ones are aw for a word, and ap for a paragraph).

Answer 2

Perhaps use a find and replace like this:

:%s/\[.*\]//g