Vim - select/yank/delete content between brackets including brackets

Solution 1:

Yes. Use a instead of i, as

ya{
ya(

See

:help a{
:help a(

and more generally,

:help text-objects
:help 04.8

Solution 2:

Does f{v% or f(v% do what you want? It moves your cursor to the next { or (, enters you into visual mode, and then moves your cursor to the corresponding closing } or ). If you're already past the scope you want to select, you can use a capital F. Works just as well to jump to the closing } or ) first, too -- f}v%.

Once you have what you want selected, you can y, d, x, etc. it. The % command works multi-line, too, so you can use this technique on large blocks of code if you wish (although f and F do not, so you have to start on either the first or last line).

EDIT: Better answer, seems to be exactly what you're looking for:

ya(

Replacing the i in your original command with a does exactly the same thing, except that it includes the '(' character. This is "yanking a block", whereas yi( is "yanking an inner block".

Solution 3:

One another way would be by following the below steps:

place the cursor on the opening parenthesis ( or braces {
press esc key and press v to enter into the visual mode
now press the % symbol (this will select the whole text between parens inclusive)
press the key y to yank (i.e. copy) the text (press d if you rather want to cut it.)