Delete word in Vim Insert mode: how to take out the whole word including trailing space?

[Linfeng Li]

Overleaf uses Ace as the editor. Its Vim mode has the following odd way of treating an empty space as a word when pressing Ctrl+W to delete a word to the left of the cursor in Insert mode.

In native VIm, the same line is deleted with roughly 50% less fo the repetitions:

A related issue has been reported with Ctrl+Backspace as well, here on Github.

Is there a quick setting that I can integrate into this GreasyFork script? I now run it whenever I interact with the Overleaf editor.

Thanks a lot!

All the best,

-Linfeng

[Linfeng Li]

In short, there is no need to hardcode anything.

I ended up using Vivaldi as the browser, which has an option to disable Ctrl+W as a browser-shortcut. The old Internet Explorer is another browser where Ctrl+W is not intercepted from Ace editor.

Native to Ace, Ctrl+W is working as intended for Vim-key-bindings.