IntelliJ IdeaVIM: jump to innermost external `{`

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  1. I am using IntelliJ + IdeaVIM.

  2. Suppose the code is properly balanced.

  3. I want to travel backwards to the nearest enclosing {

{ {} { {} } | }
1 2  3 4

Here, | is the cursor. The nearest { is at 4. However, that is not an enclosing {. Instead, I want to jump to the { at 1.

Is there a simple way to do this ?

Another way to phrase this is "nearest parent {"

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I don't know whether IdeaVim properly emulates Vim's text objects, but I can accomplish this with vaB to visual select around the enclosing Block and then o to toggle between the ends of the visual selection. va{ also works (and analogously for ( and [).

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I don't have IntelliJ, but in regular vim you can do this with vaBo<esc>. You could map this to a shorter command like:

:map ,, vaBo<esc>
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  1. Confirming that both va{ and vaBo works in IntelliJ IdeaVIM.

  2. I tried vaaBo , vaBBo. Is there a way to "go up object hierarchy" for example:

{ { { | } } }
1 2 3

| is cursor. Right now, vaBo and vaB{ will select the level 3 { ... }. Without hitting <esc>h vaBo again, is there a way to select the level 2 { ... }, basically "go up one node in whatever virtual tree that has been constructed".

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v2a{, v3a{, etc. work for me.

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Not as nice as "interactive", but far better than what I currently have. Thanks!

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I don’t use IdeaVIM, but in Vim you would use [{ for this.

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