Thursday, March 25, 2010

Re: 'w' command to actually move to the next word

On 26 March 2010 00:42, AK wrote:

> Is there any way to get vim's 'w' command (and similar)
> to move from word to word?
>
> E.g.: tar <foo bar="jar">
>
> I want vim to see this as 4 words separated by non-words
> (i.e. whitespace and punctuation). After all, tar, foo,
> bar and jar are words and =" is certainly not a word! And
> that's how I want vim to behave. I want to be on 't' and
> hitting '3w' should take me to 'j'.

Hmm, that's a good question; I wouldn't mind knowing that
myself. The following will work for your example.

:nmap w /\i\+<CR>

But it will need refinement to work well. Let me know if
there's an elegant solution! --Antony

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