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throwaway27448today at 2:03 AM2 repliesview on HN

> "w" to select what Vim considers a lowercase-w word

?!? Wtf does this mean and how did vi come up


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dhosektoday at 8:19 AM

Because any mention of Emacs must bring out the vi people, just as any mention of vi must bring out the Emacs people.

Because you people are cracking your eggs from the wrong end!

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keithnztoday at 2:08 AM

vim has two "word" motions, w and W, the lowercase w motion will see punctuation as a word boundary (as well as whitespace ) W only considers whitespace

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