argument textobjects on braces

[unphased]

When working with javascript something like this:

const opts = { type: "select", ...enqOpts };

I'd like a quick way to e.g. delete the entire type: "select", part, and if the brackets were parens, this would work fine.

It looks possible by extending, I will report back if I can make it work.

[unphased]

Sorry @wellle I'm thoroughly perplexed by the meaning of [] in:

'a': {'argument': [{'o': '[([]', 'c': '[])]', 's': ','}]},

Hope you can explain what it represents.

[unphased]

Furthermore, upon trying

 autocmd User targets#mappings#user call targets#mappings#extend({
		\ 'a': {'argument': [{'o': '{[([]', 'c': '[])]}', 's': ','}]},
		\ })

All this did was render the a functionality completely inoperable.

[wellle]

@unphased: Thanks for opening this issue. I can see how this is confusing. The argument settings o and c are actually regexes, so for example [{[] means { or [. It's important to keep [ and ] as the first and last character so this is a valid regex. And in order to include a [ or ] within the range it needs to be the last or first character respectively within the surrounding [].

Please try this version:

autocmd User targets#mappings#user call targets#mappings#extend({
		\ 'a': {'argument': [{'o': '[{([]', 'c': '[])}]', 's': ','}]},
		\ })

We used to have this better documented, but I removed that part when refactoring the settings. See https://github.com/wellle/targets.vim/tree/v0.4.6#gtargets_argopening-and-gtargets_argclosing

I guess we should bring back that documentation, it even included your use case as an example. So let me know if the suggestion above works for you, but please keep this issue open as a reminder to improve the documentation.

[unphased]

Ah, I wish I thought to treat them as regexes. Obvious only in hindsight. Thanks! Will try that out.

[eight04]

Does #267 fix this?

[unphased]

Does #267 fix this?

Yup. I think @wellle answer gave me more of what I needed though. So I am closing this. My custom definition for a also includes ; as separator. It's neat.