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> there's no way to express a real cw in a short number of keystrokes. dwi is pretty short.

• dllthomas 12y ago
  ... but not a single action. This is important when I want to repeat things.
  • philh 12y ago
    Good point. It seems likely that caw will suit most of the time, but I can't think of an exact replacement.
    • dllthomas 12y ago
      Right, caw is probably the closest; cf<Space> is what I defaulted to earlier in my vi-ing, which is a little further away but also usually close enough.
      • gpvos 12y ago
        Thanks, I didn't know about caw, because I learned vi on Solaris, which had real vi and not vim.
        • dllthomas 12y ago
          The a and i modifiers are great things - they can also be combined with most grouping characters (parens, brackets, braces, quotes).