Thursday, June 28, 2012

Re: Where in the manual are i, o, and a as in ciw cow caw?

On 27.06.12 16:22, Charles Campbell wrote:
> Gary Johnson wrote:
> >On 2012-06-06, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >>I understand the use of i in ciw, but I am not quite sure about o and
> >>a. Where can these be found in the fine manual? Of course, ":h i" does
> >>not lead own to them, because it leads one to the Insert text.
> > :help aw
> > :help iw
> >
> >There is no "ow" that I know of.
> So ... vim doesn't have a cow???
>
> Maybe we should vote on a cow for vim.

I have no beef with that. (I don't use "aw", but it seems to take the
"appended" space only, if there is one¹. So if cow would be "outer",
should it then take the leading space as well?)

Erik

¹ That "caw" then does take the prepending space if invoked on "well?",
rather than " space ", takes some getting used to. Admittedly, ":h aw"
does say "Leading or trailing white space", not "Leading and trailing
white space".

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- Grant Wood

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