Vim: Extended Text Motions

.vimrc

" Extended Text Motions
" http://connermcd.com/blog/2012/10/01/extending-vim%27s-text-objects/
let pairs = { ":" : ":",
            \ "." : ".",
            \ "<bar>" : "<bar>",
            \ "*" : "*" }

for [key, value] in items(pairs)
  exe "nnoremap ci".key." T".key."ct".value
  exe "nnoremap ca".key." F".key."cf".value
  exe "nnoremap vi".key." T".key."vt".value
  exe "nnoremap va".key." F".key."vf".value
  exe "nnoremap di".key." T".key."dt".value
  exe "nnoremap da".key." F".key."df".value
  exe "nnoremap yi".key." T".key."yt".value
  exe "nnoremap ya".key." F".key."yf".value
endfor