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expand(<cword>) gives me the word under the cursor, but it excludes symbols such as @ or .. For example, if I call it at the end of @word, it will get me word and exclude the @.
Is there a way that I could include symbols as part of the current word?
The characters that are included in a Vim word are set by the 'iskeyword' option. See
:help <word>
:help word
:help 'iskeyword'
To add another character to this set, such as ., execute the following:
:set iskeyword+=.
See
:help :set+=
Note that the character @ is special, so it has be added like this:
:set iskeyword+=@-@
See
:help 'isfname'
@-@? Is that Bram's way of showing he's mad at use for making @ part of words?
iskeyword. For example, if you add @ to iskeyword, the standard word motion command (w) will also move across e.g. @word @otherword.
Jul 22, 2015 at 14:13
Use expand(<cWORD>).
From :help :<cWORD>:
<cWORD>is replaced with the WORD under the cursor (seeWORD)
and from :help WORD:
A WORD consists of a sequence of non-blank characters, separated with white space. An empty line is also considered to be a WORD.
A sequence of folded lines is counted for one word of a single character. "w" and "W", "e" and "E" move to the start/end of the first word or WORD after a range of folded lines. "b" and "B" move to the start of the first word or WORD before the fold.
