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Selecting words
The following commands can be used either in Visual Mode or after an operator
The command that starts with a select an object including white space where as i selects an inner object without white space. So i commands will select less text than a commands
You can combine a or i for yanking, deleting and many other operations
aw: Select a word with white spaceiw: Select a word without white space
You can combine these for deleting and yanking for example
daw: delete a word with white spacediw: delete a word without white space
source:
- [http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/motion.html#aw](Text object selection)