Friday, February 12, 2016

Re: Feature or bug? Funny behaviour of cw on whitespace.

On Friday, February 12, 2016 at 1:53:00 AM UTC+13, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> But ":h cw" opens with a defence of this "Special case: ...change-word".

It doesn't say why though, and the reason IIUC is that vi did it that way, and it's such a basic command that millions are used to it. IMO we'd be better off with consistency, c{motion} is like d{motion} then enter insert mode, without this special case, but after 40 years...

Regards, John Little

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