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Comment by tudorizer | Hacker News Reader

I use that da" very often, but for some strange reason it stuck in my brain as abbreviation from 'delete around "', which is inaccurate. Thanks for making me realize this.

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Better to think of if as 'delete a' or 'delete in':

  da" => 'delete a "-block'
  di" => 'change in "-block'

Yes, "delete a" and "delete inner" is how Vim explains these text object operations. See ":help da", for example.

FWIW I would pronounce it "delete all".

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