Read punctuation as word or WORD
The technique
w would stop at the dot in notes.md. W only stops after a space, so it reaches now.
Keys in this lesson
- W
- Next WORD: skips punctuation, stops after spaces.
- E
- End of the WORD.
- B
- Back to the start of a WORD.
Before this lesson: Choose a word destination.
More about this lesson
Choose whitespace boundaries when punctuation belongs to one chunk.
W, E and B use WORDs: runs of non-whitespace characters. They ignore punctuation inside that run. They do not parse a URL, a filename or quoted text; whitespace inside quotes still separates WORDs.
Example
In “open notes.md now”, w from n stops at the dot, but W reaches now. E from n reaches d at the end of notes.md. B moves to the previous WORD start, or to the current start from its middle.
Use Reset to try again.