Vi and Vim Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for people using the vi and Vim families of text editors. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
As title says, I try to select the whole word with viw but if the naming convention is aaa-b-ccc, then I can't do that with this command. I have tried viW but this will include other symbols too which is not what I want.
Is there a way to only include - for w?
You can control that with the 'iskeyword' option. To include dashes, you can use this command:
set iskeyword+=-
You'll probably want to use setlocal and limit that to the specific filetype where you want dashes to be recognized as identifiers.
You can create a file ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/<your-filetype>.vim with that setlocal command to ensure - is always included in words when editing files of that specific type.
See also :help word:
A word consists of a sequence of letters, digits and underscores, or a sequence of other non-blank characters, separated with white space (spaces, tabs,
<EOL>). This can be changed with the'iskeyword'option. An empty line is also considered to be a word.
