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I'm familiar with iskeyword to define word boundaries. But there's also WORD and I don't know what the setting is for that. My goal is this: to delete words in a comma-seperate list flexibly. Example:

apple, banana, carrot, orange.

If I place my cursor at carrot and type daw, I expect it to remove carrot,• (space represented by the • symbol). If I type diw instead, I expect it to remove just carrot. Is this possible?

I currently have set iskeyword-=, but that makes both commands do the same thing, except one doesn't delete a space.

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    daW gets you the desired behavior (note the capital).
    – Tumbler41
    Feb 22 '17 at 19:58
  • Why didn't you answer this question? I could've selected it as the answer. Do you want to answer it?
    – Geoff Lee
    Feb 24 '17 at 22:51
  • Because I fixed your problem without answering your question. :P But if you're satisfied I'll answer it.
    – Tumbler41
    Feb 24 '17 at 22:52
  • I think you did answer my question. You told me how to use word boundaries properly :)
    – Geoff Lee
    Feb 24 '17 at 22:57
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There is no need to modify iskeyword. You can just use a WORD instead. You can use a WORD (as opposed to a word) in a text object by using a capital W:

daW

See :help text-objects and :help WORD for more info.

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