a lost vi command

[Vu Pham]

On 08/18/2010 11:59 AM, Dog Walker wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Vu Pham<vu at sivell.com>  wrote:
>>
>> I thought a friend of mine told me how to do this in VI but now I cannot remember how to do it.
>>
>> I have the below sentence:
>>
>> this is an example blah1 blah2 blah3.
>>
>> The cursor is currently at the letter 'e' of the word example. I want to delete the text "example blah1 blah2". IIRC, I was told to use 2 with some command ( or some command with 2 ) but I cannot remember what it is.
>>
>> Could you please remind me ?
>>
>
> df2
>
> d for delete
> f for find
> 2 argument to f
>
> :help d
> --
> I have seen the future and I'm not in it!

Thanks. I missed this part in :help motion.txt. I should have read it 
more carefully.

f{char}                 To [count]'th occurrence of {char} to the right. 
  The
                         cursor is placed on {char} |inclusive|.
                         {char} can be entered as a digraph |digraph-arg|.
                         When 'encoding' is set to Unicode, composing
                         characters may be used, see |utf-8-char-arg|.
                         |:lmap| mappings apply to {char}.  The CTRL-^ 
command
                         in Insert mode can be used to switch this on/off
                         |i_CTRL-^|.


Vu