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What does capital W do in VIM?

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00:00 What Does Capital W Do In Vim?
00:20 Accepted Answer Score 17
00:37 Answer 2 Score 6
01:17 Answer 3 Score 5
01:42 Answer 4 Score 0
01:58 Answer 5 Score 0
02:17 Thank you

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 17


As others have said, :W isn't defined in vanilla vim (7.0 here), so it sounds like some plugin you've installed has added it.

:command W will tell you what it does.



ANSWER 2

Score 6


You can test this line

{Cursor}It's the test
  • {Cursor}: Cursor position in normal mode
  • w: will move word which separated by " ,./?"
    • You will end up at 's …
  • W: will move word which separated by " " only
    • You will end up at the …


ANSWER 3

Score 0


That's strange. The normal mapping of "W" advances by a WORD, where WORD is defined by a sequence of non-blank characters.



ANSWER 4

Score 0


:W doesn't do anything in my copy of VIM (6.4), for what that's worth. What does :help :W tell you? (For me, it just takes me to the help for :w, which wouldn't be, um, help-ful for you. :-) )