title: How to quickly remove a pair of parentheses, brackets, or braces in Vim?
body: <p>In Vim, if I have code such as (in Ruby):</p>
  
  <pre><code>anArray &lt;&lt; [anElement]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and my cursor is on the first <code>[</code>, I can hop to <code>]</code> with the <code>%</code> key, and I can delete all the content between the <code>[]</code> pair with <code>d%</code>, but what if I just want to delete the <code>[</code> and <code>]</code> leaving all the remaining content between the two. In other words, what's the quickest way to get to:</p>
  
  <pre><code>anArray &lt;&lt; anElement
  </code></pre>