You wouldn't think that if you used vim. I don't want to turn these comments into a vim tutorial so I simplified it a bit. But in the framework of vim, d/foo an

You wouldn't think that if you used vim. I don't want to turn these comments into a vim tutorial so I simplified it a bit. But in the framework of vim, d/foo and what it does is totally intuitive and easy to figure out on your own. With vim when you learn a new command it applies to all the movements you know and vice versa. EDIT: rereading my comment, I should have said "/foo moves to the first instance of foo in the document" to correlate how / is a movement just like w is a movement (w is "move by one word")