Vim Latex: Remove command around word/phrase easily

Question

I am using vim-latex and I am searching for a solution to delete an attribute/a command around a phrase. E.g.

\textit{\textbf{Foo}}

shall become

\textit{Foo}

somehow. I found the "surroundings"-script which is powerful for single signs but unfortunately cannot achieve my goals.

Any ideas and hints?

Answer 1

If you have surround.vim by Tim Pope this might do

nmap <silent> dsa ds}dF\

Answer 2

you could do something like

F{dF\ds{

F{  "goes back to the last { before the cursor
dF\ "deletes the attribute
ds{ "deletes the {} (needing the surround-plugin

and put this to a new-vim-command like ds or something but otherwise I don't know either.