Question

I get this weird problem when working in Python in my vim, when I hit w to move or delete for instance it won’t move to the proper position. For instance, let’s say I have the following:

email_message.walk()

If my caret is at the beginning and I hit w it would be expected that it moved to the W of walk, instead it moves to the closing parenthesis.

Answer 1

I’m almost positive the the problem here lies in the ‘iskeyword’ option. Motions like w and b move to a word boundary as defined by this option. I’m betting you have a plugin installed that is setting adding ‘.’ and changing this behavior.

See :help 'iskeyword' for more info about this option and :verbose set iskeyword? to see what last set this option.