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I'm struggling to delete words in Vim

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Mar 15, 2026487 views

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My cursor is on the final character of a word in Vim. Without moving the cursor, is there any succinct way to delete the current word and the word before it? As far as I can tell, the only way to delete the current word is to use . Using leaves the character under the cursor (which happens to be th…

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I would do either or . Or if there were 5 words to delete. I prefer as I like to have some visual clue of what I'm going to do and it feels a bit cleaner.

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