vim - How do I delete a word when the cursor is in the middle of the word?

Question

How do I delete a word when the cursor is somewhere in the middle of that word (neither at the end or beginning of a word) in Vim?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2737137/how-do-i-delete-a-word-when-the-cursor-is-in-the-middle-of-the-word

Answer 1

What you need is the following keystrokes in normal mode (after pressing Esc):

diw (meaning: delete inner word)

-or-

daw (meaning: delete a word)

The second command also deletes all spaces after the word, or all spaces before the word if there are no spaces after the word.

For more related commands:

:help diw
:help daw