On 11.02.16 03:43, 'Elmar Hinz' via vim_use wrote: > the normal behaviour of the w motion is to move n words forward and to act > exclusively.
Yes, the motion is (mostly) to the start of the next/nth word. (exclusive) > Different from this the normal behaviour of cw is to change to the end > of the current word, much like ce. Ah, I don't ever use cw within a word, but ce instead, so haven't noticed that it fails to eat the space as it should, to be consistent. But ":h cw" opens with a defence of this "Special case: ...change-word". > But what happens when hitting cw on whitespace between words? The w motion is then perfectly as specified, and as expected. It is particularly handy when correcting indentation of a few lines to align with a leading line of arbitrary indentation: 1) Move to start of leading line, with ^. 2) j 3) dw 4) Loop to 2 until done, using '.' at 3, i.e. j.j.j.j. Erik -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
