Dunno. I'm about average and I use 'di(' or 'di{' like all the time. Not rocket science. One nice thing about vim is you basically don't need to remember 'tric

Dunno. I'm about average and I use 'di(' or 'di{' like all the time. Not rocket science. One nice thing about vim is you basically don't need to remember 'tricks'. They're structured, so you can pretty much guess at a new trick if you want. For instance, d2w. Never used it before. Just used it. It deletes two words. Pretty useless, but the point is, it's not a trick - it's just an application of stuff you use all the time (delete, a count, a word object). Or like, dF. It deletes everything until the last dot. This is also obvious, because you use F all the time to jump to the last occurrence of a character. So 'delete till last dot' is just something you can make up or use without even noticing you're using it. I certainly don't know if I've used it before.