copy word under cursor in Vim

copy word under cursor in Vim.txt

copy/delete word under cursor in Vim
yw / byw

Assuming that the cursor is at the first character of the word simply do this in command mode:
     yw
y is for yank and w is for word.

Other ways of doing the same thing which are not as efficient:
     vey
the v starts visual select mode. e tells vim to move to end of word. y yanks or copies the word. to delete replace y with x.

if the cursor is somewhere in the middle of the word, add a b before the command as in:
     byw
or
     bvey
     
# http://www.littletechtips.com/2011/05/how-to-copydelete-word-under-cursor-in.html

Thank you. You can also yaw to yank the entire word regardless of where the cursor is located.

Thanks guys! You rock!

Thanks , this is helpful.

Thanks, there is a small mistake on the first row, these combination will only copy, not delete.

Any shortcut to SELECT an entire word that you guys are aware of?

This is great, but I would love to use in conjunction with the ability to highlight another word to replace it with, I think.

EDIT: this would be vaw - duh. Only issue is doing yaw and then vaw seems to add a space. No solution from me on this yet. If anyone else has one feel free to share!

@mochsner
viw and yiw will select and copy entire word without the leading space.