How to efficiently delete word, colon and a comma in VIM

Question

I often have the piece of code like this:

it "should do something", :focus do
  ...
end

When I want to delete , :focus I usually do

1. Go to line 1: 1G
2. Go to the colon: f:
3. Delete colon (using around word, so I can repeat it): daw
4. Delete focus (just repeat previous): ..
5. Delete comma (move left and replace it with space): hr<SPACE>.

Is there any way steps 3-5 can be achieved more efficiently?

Answer 1

You can go:

1. 1G to go to first line
2. f, to go to the comma
3. dE to delete till the next end of WORD (WORD in capital letters is any sequence of characters that is not space).

Answer 2

With your cursor on the , you could do v, e,e,d.

or d,2,e