vim: select inside dots

Question

I can\'t find a solution (here and on the web) for simply selecting/inserting/deleting stuff surrounded by dots (a common case in development) :

    someobje         


        

Answer 1

I dont know any generic solutions. For select/delete/insert I use regular experssions.

:%s/\.some-property-with-hyphens\./.i-like-this-property./g

To just select

/\.some-property-with-hypehns\.

A more generic rule

/\.[\-a-zA-Z0-9]*\.

Hope this is what you are asking.