Vim: changing/deleting up to the end of a "block"

Question

When you have a block of text delimitated by brackets or quotes, you can use

ci"
da(

and so on to change that block of text. But is there a way to change or delete from the cursor to the end of that block (in the way cw does it for words)?

Answer 1

Use ct) to “correct till closing parenthesis”.

Vim motions with t, f, T and F are very, very useful. :help t, :help f.

Update: If there are nested parentheses where you are:

• vi)o`` will select till closing parenthese (will select inside parentheses, then switch to other end of the selection and move it to where you were (``)
• vi)`` will select till opening parenthese (same mechanism, but without needing o)

The first one works only because when you are doing vi) a cursor jump is remembered, and `` goes to previous cursor location. It seems that o in visual mode does not affect this.

Answer 2

Benoit's answer of using t f T and F is the best way that I know of. When it comes to deleting to the end of a parenthesised block you can use ]). This will take into account any nested parenthesis. There is also a corresponding [(, ]} and [{.