delete word after or around cursor in VIM

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I m now switching to VIM from TextMate  I found   W in INSERT mode very useful  However  I d like to delete not only the word before cursor  but the word after or around cursor as well   I did some googling  but the only thing I can find was   W to delete word BEFORE cursor

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I made two mappings so I could get consistency in insert and out of insert mode    map  lt  Key of your choice  gt  caw   imap  lt  Key of your choice  gt   lt  Esc  gt  caw

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It doesn t look like there s any built-in way to do it in insert mode  which was the question   Some of the other answers are correct for normal mode  as well as pointing out that a custom mapping could be created to add the functionality in insert mode   Honestly  you should probably do most of your deleting in normal mode   W is neat to know about but I m not sure I can think of a situation where I d rather do it than esc to go into normal mode and have the more powerful deletion commands at my disposal   Vim is very different from a number of other editors  including TextMate  in this way   If you re using it productively  you ll probably find that you don t spend very much time in insert mode

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Since there are so many ways to delete a word  let s illustrate them   Assuming you edit   foo-bar quux   and invoke a command while the cursor is on the  a  in  bar    foo-bquux    dw   letters then spaces right of cursor foo-quux     daw  letters on both sides of cursor then spaces on the right  foo- quux    diw  letters on both sides of cursor foo-bquux    dW   non-whitespace then spaces right of cursor quux         daW  non-whitespace on both sides of cursor then spaces on the right  quux        diW  non-whitespace on both sides of cursor

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I d like to delete not only the word before cursor  but the word after or around cursor as well    In that case the solution proposed by OP  i e  using  lt c-w gt   can be combined with the accepted answer to give   inoremap  lt c-d gt   lt c-o gt daw lt c-w gt    alternatively  shorter solution    inoremap  lt c-d gt   lt c-o gt vawobd   Sample input   word1 word2 word3 word4                 ------------- Cursor location   Output   word1 word4

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I think it s just daw  daw - delete a word

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To delete the entire word your cursor is on use diw  To delete the entire word your cursor is on and to put you in insert mode use ciw  if you dont want to delete the entire word but delete from where you are the dw cw

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To delete all characters between two whitespaces  in normal mode   daW   To delete just one word   daw

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Insert mode has no such command  unfortunately  In VIM  to delete the whole word under the cursor you may type viwd in NORMAL mode  Which means  Visual-block Inner Word Delete   Use an upper case W to include punctuation

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Do you mean like   dw

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In old vi  b moves the cursor to the beginning of the word before cursor  w moves the cursor to the beginning of the word after cursor  e moves cursor at the end of the word after cursor and dw deletes from the cursor to the end of the word   If you type wbdw  you delete the word around cursor  even if the cursor is at the beginning or at the end of the word  Note that whitespaces after a word are considerer to be part of the word to be deleted

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Normal mode    daw   delete the word under the cursor     caw   delete the word under the cursor and put you in insert mode

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For deleting a certain amount of characters before the cursor  you can use X  For deleting a certain number of words after the cursor  you can use dw  multiple words can be deleted using 3dw for 3 words for example   For deleting around the cursor in general  you can use daw

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What you should do is create an imap of a certain key to a series of commands  in this case the commands will drop you into normal mode  delete the current word and then put you back in insert    imap  lt C-d gt   lt C-  gt diwi

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The below works for Normal mode  I agree with Dan Olson s answer that you should probably be in normal mode for most deletions  More details below   If the cursor is inside the word  diw to delete in the word  doesn t include spaces  daw to delete around the word  includes spaces before the next word    If the cursor is at the start of the word  just press dw   This can be multiplied by adding the usual numbers for movement  e g  2w to move forward 2 words  so d2w deletes two words   Insert Mode  w The idea of using hjkl for movement in Vim is that it s more productive to keep your hands on the home row  At the end of a word  w works great to quickly delete the word  If you ve gone into insert mode  entered some text and used the arrow keys to end up in the middle of the word you ve gone against the home-row philosophy  If you re in normal mode and want to change the word you can simply use the c  change  rather than d  delete  if you d like to completely change the word  and re-enter insert mode without having to press i to get back to typing

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The accepted answer fails when trying to repeat deleting words  try this solution instead     delete current word  insert and normal modes inoremap  lt C-BS gt   lt C-O gt b lt C-O gt dw noremap  lt C-BS gt  bdw   It maps CTRL-BackSpace  also working in normal mode

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Not exactly sure about your usage of  before  and  after   but have you tried  dw      Edit  I guess you are looking for something to use in insert mode  Strangely enough  there is nothing to be found in the docs  ctrl-w seems to be all there is

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