Question

I’m just starting out with Vim (and love it so far) so please bear with me…

I’m editing a web.config file and need to delete the value between double quotes. Normally I would use di” for this task, but the last character inside the double quotes is a backslash and thus it seems that Vim interprets it as an escape character for the succeeding quote.

I.e. in the string:

<add key="MyPath" value="C:\Apps\Site\" />

Setting the cursor above “MyPath” and hitting di” works as expected. Setting it above the path value does not… Is there some setting that handles this?

Answer 1

You can clear the quote escape character:

:set quoteescape=

From there, di" on your second attribute works as expected.