explanation for the command ci":
c: change. analogous to delete(d) followed by insert(i)
i: inside
": the double quote
so, it's basically change inside double quote(easier to remember as it sounds exactly what it does).
you can similarly do di((delete inside parenthesis).

an inferior alternative on vscodium would be shift + alt + right/left arrow

second to Emacs, of course.

I've been using vim/neovim for more than a decade. Here are my favorite plugins (ranked):

• junegunn/fzf
• junegunn/fzf.vim
• bling/vim-airline
• airblade/vim-gitgutter
• w0rp/ale
• Shougo/deoplete.nvim
• tpope/vim-surround
• tpope/vim-fugitive
• tpope/vim-unimpaired

Bonus tip:

ci" means change inside "" ca" means change around ""

the " can be replaced with any of: ({[wspbt

For changing inside or around parentheses, curky brackets, square brackets, words, sentences, paragraphs, code blocks and HTML tags respectively.

So for example if you want to replace all parameters in a function call you just do ci(

But that's not all, the c is one of the possible operators, but not the only one.

di{ deletes the content of a block ya[ copies the content of something inside square brackets g~iw swaps the case of a word guis makes a sentence lower case gUip makes a paragraph upper case

And the most useless one: g?at replaces the content of an HTML tag with its rot13

I love vim and vim based editors.

I used to use stock Vim but recently I've started using Helix which is like a more user friendly version of vim (copying to clipboard is easy) and I'm loving it!

passing away of Bram Moolenaar has made me accelerate faster towards the day where my machine would be clean of any electron bloat.

Was he electroncuted or something?

I can see you're a person of culture.

I have been using Vim for over 3 years now and still learning new things. Today I learned about ci". Thank you.

Shit, I barely remebered :q to exit the damn thing 😂.

The best moment for me was when i understood how it works in general (I.e. ``) and stopped just memorizing stuff

Funny I had to Google ci" to remember what it does even though I use that sometimes.

I've committed to learning vim years ago and in most situations im faster in vim than in nano etc. (especially because of muscle memory) I still feel like I'm not properly using vim to it's full extend (like whenever I remember using registers it feels like magick and I'm sure there's more like that)

Now that you know about ci(, I highly recommend taking a look at tpope's plugins. Especially the surround plugin. It can change the surrounding parentheses and tags (if you're editing an HTML or XML document). Quite cool. Also, there's much more in tpope's library of pugins.

PS, did you know that zsh has a vi mode, where you can use typical vi commands to edit the command prompt instead after the default ones? Quite useful as well.

You can also put vim inside VSCode via extensions!

TIL. Thanks OP. I have been using "vi" followed by "x" followed by "i" all this time.