Text Objects · Paragraphs
Paragraphs Review
Move through and operate on paragraph boundaries.
Brace motions navigate between blocks; paragraph objects hand those blocks to delete or change without separate positioning.
Use {, }, dip, dap, and cip in the editor beside this lesson. The challenge proves it once; Practice is a timed run against the clock.
Keys in this lesson
- {
- Jump back to the previous blank line
- }
- Jump forward to the next blank line
- dip
- Delete the paragraph, keeping the blank lines around it
- dap
- Delete the paragraph and its trailing blank line
- cip
- Change the paragraph, keeping the blank lines around it
Practice against the clock.
The challenge proves completion once. Practice is a timed run of 15 goals — beat par, then beat your own best time. Every completed goal saves locally.