cw takes whitespace between words

[oblitum]

Is it intentional to consume the whitespace between words? I'm getting myself frequently making mistakes because of this change, for example in |foo bar (cursor is |), I see that for dw it's indeed useful to delete whitespace, maybe, but for cw it doesn't make much sense, even more because it's inconsistent with ciw that whose purpose is to change word from inside the word, but it differs from behavior given that it doesn't consume whitespace, as in usual Vim.

[oblitum]

Hmm, OK, now I got that the caveat section in the README is about this... I just don't understand why this was chosen...

[chaoren]

You want de (or ce) instead of dw (or cw). If you consider the actual motion of w (which is a totally different thing from iw), Vim is the inconsistent one here. If you prefer the original behavior just do this:

map dw de
map cw ce

Or just train yourself to use the correct e version.

[oblitum]

Ah, OK thanks :) I'll try to train that.

[oblitum]

I suggest a mention of de and ce in README, as dw and cw is so popular... newbies may miss it in general.

[chaoren]

It is there:

"This plugin faithfully follows the motion of w, while Vim replaces these two special cases with the behavior of de and ce, respectively."

[oblitum]

Ah, I didn't connect the dots because there was no reference to dw/cw, which is what I got used to.

[chaoren]

dw and cw is in the big diagram. Is it hard to read? I'll add dw and cw to the text then.

[oblitum]

Well, there're references in the diagram above indeed... but I didn't connect ce was brother of cw because of the distance in text. Enough excuses huh? :)

[tmandry]

I also didn't realize from the README that I could just map dw and cw. Glad I found this issue. The mention of "special cases" made me think that it wasn't that simple, i.e. that vim was doing something more clever than this.

[chaoren]

https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/b45125b374cc3a1cef176b704f518c72c518f24c/runtime/doc/motion.txt#L413

Special case: "cw" and "cW" are treated like "ce" and "cE" if the cursor is
on a non-blank. This is because "cw" is interpreted as change-word, and a
word does not include the following white space. {Vi: "cw" when on a blank
followed by other blanks changes only the first blank; this is probably a
bug, because "dw" deletes all the blanks}

It really is just a special case.