Selecting entire function definition in Vim

Question

I\'ve been trying Vim for any text editing work for almost a week now. I want to know the fastest way to select a C function definition.

For example, if I have a fun

Answer 1

If you are willing to install plugins vim-textobj-function will give you vif for Visual select Inside Function and vaf for Visual select A Function.

daf will delete the function, both the line with the signature and the function body ({})

The text object defined by this plugin are more specific and they don't rely on the function body being a contiguous block of text or { being placed at the first character on the line.

The drawback is that you depend on an external plugin.