Introduction

The textobj-dotseparated plugin provides two new text-objects which are triggered by a. and i. respectively. You can use them when you have to deal with the following type of words:

• foo.bar.baz

Now, suppose you have to change bar to qux (* for cursor position). You can do the following:

foo.b*ar.bar and type ci. to get foo.*.bar. Or you can type da. to get foobar.

Variable or function names containing dots to separate subwords are often found in the programming language R or in other languages where dots are used for accessing properties of an object.

Installation

I recommend installing the plugin via vundle or vim-plig.

You can also unzip it in your ~/.vim directory. The plugin depends on vim-textobj-user by kana. So you need to install it in order to use this plugin.

Contributors

Acknowledgement

• The README and doc file are largely copied from vim-textobj-underscore by lucapette.
• Help when making this small plugin was provided by reddit user VanLaser. Thanks alot.

Copyright

Copyright (c) Robin Hafen. Distributed under the same terms as Vim itself.