vim-indent-object VS vim-textobj-python

I tried https://github.com/michaeljsmith/vim-indent-object and while it was somewhat promising, it doesn't work correctly.

If your function is nicely indented (like your example), you can use an indent object daI delete it. Indent objects are provided by vim-indent-object (more well-known but inactive) and vindent.vim (an extended version by me).

vindent.vim is an alternative to both vim-indentwise and vim-indent-object. The latest version v3.0.0 reimplements every functionality that the two plugin offer, but improved!

I use indent objects from vim-indent-object and indent jumps vim-indentwise alot, but they seem to be dormant for a long time. Also, vim-indentwise provides a lot of unnecessary functionalities IMO, making modifying the source code a bit difficult.

This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but assuming you've indented everything between do and end, you can use the vim indent object plugin (https://github.com/michaeljsmith/vim-indent-object), then do something like yii, or dii to do it inside the indent.

I just saw a nice post in /u/medwatt about using vim for VHDL/Verilog and thought I'd contribute a little! * Syntax and error highlight: https://github.com/autozimu/LanguageClient-neovim * Column align: https://github.com/junegunn/vim-easy-align * Remove annoying whitespaces: https://github.com/ntpeters/vim-better-whitespace * Partial (fuzzy) filename search: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.vim * Outline all declarations inside a file: ⠀https://github.com/preservim/tagbar * Treat indentations as vim-objects (useful for languages that don't use { }): https://github.com/michaeljsmith/vim-indent-object There is also mouse support in vim for those who want it. Try typing :set mouse=a. Very useful for resizing windows. I also highly recommend you get good at using folds (https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Folding). It makes it a LOT easier to navigate files. You can save your fold config per-file with :mkview and load it later with :loadview. If I come up with more hints - I'll mention them in the comments!

Some of the forks https://github.com/michaeljsmith/vim-indent-object/network seem to be quite ahead, you can probably choose and pick a lot of improvements to your fork, then you take over the world!

For Python, for example, I use https://github.com/bps/vim-textobj-python.

vim-textobj-python and having language aware text-objects are also very useful, especially when Slime-ing code to the REPL.

Out of the box, vim is already very good at text editing, but to supercharge your editing power, you would want to add some additional text objects. Most important for Python is bps/vim-textobj-python and kana/vim-textobj-indent.

Also, for general text editing in vim, you want to have useful text objects that understands the language that you're working on. For python, I found these the most useful from my collection: bps/vim-textobj-python (function/class text objects), pianohacker/vim-textobj-indented-paragraph (indentation text objects).