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vim-textobj-user is a library plugin for Vim to define your own text objects without handling many edge cases and complex stuffs.

To avoid reinventing wheels, please add links to plugins to the following tables when you write your own text objects or find text objects written by somebody:

General purpose text objects

Plugin name	Author	Summary
vim-textobj-backticks	fvictorio	a` /i` for a region between backticks, and ii` for excluding inner whitespace
vim-textobj-between	thinca	af{char}/if{char} for a region between {char}s
vim-textobj-blanklines	deathlyfrantic	a<Space>/i<Space> for groups of blank (only whitespace) lines
vim-textobj-brace	Julian	aj/ij for the closest region between any of () [] or {}.
vim-textobj-chunk	Chun-Yang	ac/ic for all the lines contain one of {}, [], or () pairs
vim-textobj-comment	glts	ac/ic for a comment
vim-textobj-continuous-line	rhysd	av/iv for lines continued by \ in C++, sh, and others
vim-textobj-datetime	kana	ada/ida and others for date and time such as 2013-03-13, 19:51:45, 2013-03-13T19:51:50, and more
vim-textobj-diff	kana	adh/idh and others for various elements in diff(1) output
vim-textobj-entire	kana	ae/ie for the entire region of the current buffer
vim-textobj-erb	whatyouhide	aE/iE for erb tags
vim-textobj-fold	kana	az/iz for a block of folded lines
vim-textobj-fold	somini	az/iz for a block of folded lines; iz does not include fold marker lines
vim-textobj-function	kana	af/if and aF/iF for a function / extensible for any language
vim-textobj-gitgutter	gilligan	ih for a changed hunk marked by vim-gitgutter
vim-textobj-heredocs	rsrchboy	aH/iH for heredocs
vim-textobj-indblock	glts	ao/io for a block of indentation (i.e. spaces)
vim-textobj-indent	kana	ai/ii for a block of similarly indented lines / aI/iI for a block of lines with the same indentation
vim-textobj-indented-paragraph	pianohacker	ar/ir for a paragraph with the same indentation / g)/g( for moving between paragraphs at the same indentation
vim-textobj-jabraces	kana	aj{X}/ij{X} for a block surrounded by various Japanese braces such as 「foo」 and 【bar】
vim-textobj-keyvalue	vimtaku	ak/iv for key / value
vim-textobj-lastpat	kana	a//i/ for a region matched to the last search pattern
vim-textobj-line	kana	al/il for the current line
vim-textobj-matchit	adriaanzon	am/im for matchit.vim pairs
vim-textobj-parameter	sgur	a,/i, for an argument to a function
vim-textobj-pastedtext	saaguero	gb for last pasted text
vim-textobj-path	paulhybryant	ap/ip for next file path (w/o basename), aP/iP for the previous file path (w/o basename)
vim-textobj-punctuation	beloglazov	au/iu for the text between the cursor position and the closest punctuation in front
vim-textobj-quote	reedes	aq/iq aQ/iQ for “typographic-quoted” strings
vim-textobj-quotes	beloglazov	aq/iq for the closest pairs of quotes of any type
vim-textobj-sentence-line	ctholho	as/is for sentences delimited by newlines, like for fountain syntax
vim-textobj-sentence	reedes	as/is for a sentence of prose (overrides hard-coded native object & motion)
vim-textobj-signify-hunk	killphi	ih for a changed hunk marked by vim-signify (fork from vim-textobj-gitgutter)
vim-textobj-space	saihoooooooo	aS/iS for a region filled with various space characters
vim-textobj-syntax	kana	ay/iy for a syntax-highlighted item
vim-textobj-toplevel	adolenc	aT/iT for "top level" blocks of code in arbitrary programming language
vim-textobj-underscore	lucapette	a_/i_ for a region between _s such as bar in foo_bar_baz
vim-textobj-uri	jceb	au/iu for a URI, also includes URI handlers and is easy to extend
vim-textobj-url	mattn	au/iu for a URL
vim-textobj-variable-segment	Julian	av/iv for a region between either _s or camelCaseVariables
vim-textobj-word-column	idbrii	ac/ic/aC/iC for columns of text defined by word or WORD
vim-textobj-xmlattr	whatyouhide	ax/ix for XML/HTML attributes

For specific languages

Plugin name	Author	Summary
vim-textobj-blade-directive	adriaanzon	For Laravel Blade: ad / id for directives
vim-textobj-clang	libclang-vim	For C and C++ blocks, etc.: i;f / a;c
vim-textobj-css	jasonlong	For CSS, Sass, Less, etc.: ic / ac
vim-textobj-elixir	amiralies	For elixir blocks (both do end and fn end)
vim-textobj-elixir	andyl	ae / ie for Elixir blocks
vim-textobj-haskell	gilligan	For Haskell: ih for a function
vim-textobj-help	kana	For Vim :help documents
vim-textobj-latex	rbonvall	For LaTeX: a$/i$ for an $equation$, and more
vim-textobj-lua	spacewander	For Lua: a/i for function, al/il for a block, and ac/ic for a condition
vim-textobj-markdown	coachshea	text objects and movements for markdown and rmarkdown files
vim-textobj-php	akiyan	For PHP: aP/iP for a range between the PHP delimiters such as <?php and ?>
vim-textobj-python	bps	For Python: af/if for a function, ac/ic for a class
vim-textobj-ruby	tek	For Ruby: a/i function, class, and r for a block. an for a Scoped::Name.
vim-textobj-rubyblock	nelstrom	For Ruby: ar/ir for a block
vim-textobj-sigil	vimtaku	For Perl: ig for a variable such as $foo / ag for a more complex expression