Vim - capture in between slashes?

vi, vim, vim-registers, yank

Solution

You could write your own text-object for this pretty easily.

onoremap <silent> i/ :<C-U>normal! T/vt/<CR> " inside /
onoremap <silent> a/ :<C-U>normal! F/vf/<CR> " around /

For it to work with visual mode :

xnoremap <silent> i/ :<C-U>normal! T/vt/<CR> " inside /
xnoremap <silent> a/ :<C-U>normal! F/vf/<CR> " around /

Similarly you could also do for `\`

Edit: Added info comments.

Problem

Is there a motion for capturing text in between `/` or `\`? I know there is motions for other symbols --- `ci"` - Capture 'text' inside `"text"` `vi(` - Visual capture `int var` inside `foo(int var)` `di[` - Delete word `[word]` into `[]` The only workaround I can find is by using Vim Surround, and using it to change surrounding `\` into `"` (`cs\"`), and then working from there. However, not only is it that kind of tedious, but the plugin only supports backslashes, not forward.

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