I’m a big fan of Stack Overflow and I tend to contribute regularly (am currently in the top 0.X%). In this category (stackoverflow) of posts I will will be posting my top rated questions and answers. This, btw, is allowed as explained in the meta thread here.

So, my question was if for example we have this line of code:

$query = "SELECT * FROM table";

is there a command in vi/vim which can instantly delete everything between quotes and position the cursor between them so I can start typing immediatelly?

The answer, by user eugene y, was:

Use ci", which means: change what’s inside the double quotes.

You can also manipulate other text objects in a similar way, e.g.:

• ciw – change inside a word
• ci( – change inside parentheses
• dit – delete inside an HTML tag, etc.

More about different vim text objects here.

My favourite quotes from the book Therapy by Sebastian Fitzek:

Stories are worthless if they can’t be narrated to someone.

Show me your friends and I’ll tell you who you are.

Even the most intelligent people act from time to time very funny and unusual. Almost every owner of the TV remote has, for example, irreparable habit of pressing the buttons harder when batteries start to fade.