svermeulen / vim-you-keep-using-that-word

Make cw consistent with dw, yw, et al

You Keep Using That Word

A tiny little plugin for Vim

When using word motion with the c command, it does not mean what Vim normally thinks it means. As the documentation says:

Special case: When the cursor is in a word, cw and cW do not include the white space after a word, they only change up to the end of the word. This is because Vim interprets cw as change-word, and a word does not include the following white space.

But you can already do the same yourself by using ce and cE, whereas this supposedly helpful exception leaves you using workarounds such as cf<Space> in order to do what you normally would use cw or cW for.

This plugin removes the special exception from cw/cW. It does nothing else, and it has no configuration options.

Credits

Thanks to Josh Howe (@joshtch) for pointing out my omission of the WORD motion in the initial release of this plugin.