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Is it possible to select an html tag's content in Vim? For example:

<p>I am a silly butterfly</p>

I would like to select "I am a silly butterfly"!

I know that you can use vi" to select text inside quotes, brackets, etc. The problem here is that the text inside html tags is not really within anything that I can use the i function for.

Thanks!

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You can use vit to visually select text in a tag. See

:help v_it
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Perfect! Gonna write a post about this in my blog, I couldn't find anything on Google with "Vim selecting html tag contents" and others. – fholgado Aug 30 '10 at 2:48
You can also substitute v with many other commands, I often use c to change; > and < to fix indentation. – Dave Tapley Apr 19 at 17:24
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