Is it possible for vim to treat underscores like spaces or hypens, so when I use the sequence dw
, it doesn't delete whole sentence some_long_text_with_underscores
, when the cursor is at the beginning?
dw
deletes a word, and what constitutes a word is defined by the iskeyword
setting. From :h word
:
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.
To remove _
from iskeyword
, do:
set iskeyword-=_
-
1It turned out to be a double-edged sword, as vim started to treat long function names as separate words. For example, a python function called ,,download_and_print()" is going to have colored ,,and'' - as this is a language keyword. It's also impossible to navigate with */# between function calls. I know it wasn't the part of the question, but wanted to mention this. – jligeza Oct 6 '15 at 7:54
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