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) :

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Answer 1

You might want to try this although it's not a proper answer:

put you cursor on s (after dot) and type: (which means visual until dot).

vf. 

I believe the reason that you can't use vi. is dot is not something that vim could find its another pair like ( or ' ".