Question

Suppose I’m in a certain line position in vim and I want to delete up to a certain character, say a semicolon. I would do df; except it would also delete the semicolon. Is there a command that will do the same thing but will not include the character I’m searching for?

Answer 1

Yes, dt;. From the Vim docs:

t{char}

Till before [count]’th occurrence of {char} to the right. The cursor is placed on the character left of {char} |inclusive|. {char} can be entered like with the |f| command.