Re: What's the command to delete a word?

On 02/12/09 05:56, Peng Yu wrote:
> dd is the command to delete a line. I'm wondering what the command to
> delete a word (including the spaces immediately afterward) is?
>

To delete the word under the cursor, with the whitespace on one side, use

daw

for Delete A Word.

This "word" will be delimited by any non-keyword characters, see
|'iskeyword'|. To delete a WORD instead (delimited by whitespace), use

daW

see ":help text-objects"

Best regards,
Tony.
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