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Chris
Chris

Reputation: 31256

Vim 'w' behaving like 'W'

I use vim. On every machine I have ever used it on, 'w' respects punctuation. If I press 'w', I will advance to the end of a word.

In the case of a period delimited word, I will move to the next period.

However, in a particular install of vim, 'w' is interpreted as 'W' and skips past all special characters.

At first I thought I would just adapt, but it has become frustrating. How do I return this behavior to normal?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 202

Answers (2)

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172688

What w skips over is controlled by :help 'iskeyword'. Now if Vim suddenly skips past periods, that means that the period (., or numerical 46) got added to that option.

You can find out where this was done via

:verbose setlocal iskeyword?

And (for the current session) undo with

:setlocal isk-=. isk-=46

Usually, a filetype plugin changes this for a particular type of file.

Upvotes: 5

Ram
Ram

Reputation: 488

Try remapping this. Go to your ~/.vimrc and add this and save: 

nnoremap w w

Upvotes: 2

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