How to quickly remove a pair of parentheses, brackets, or braces in Vim?

Question

In Vim, if I have code such as (in Ruby):

anArray << [anElement]

and my cursor is on the first [, I can hop to ]

Answer 1

Using the Surround plugin for Vim, you can eliminate surrounding delimiters with ds.

To install it via Vundle plugin, add

Plugin 'tpope/vim-surround' 

to your .vimrc file and run :PluginInstall.