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Allow for other delimiter?

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
vim
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reading the repository's text-object entry points and delimiter handling, then reproduce the reported dav behavior with multi.word.var. Done means the delimiter list can include . and the operation preserves word.var as described.

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Description

Maybe this is too much to do, but for instance, in R the style guide I follow dictates that multi word variables be written as

multi.word.var

I would love to be able to add '.' to the list of delimiters so that this works. Currently doing dav when the cursor is on m' just deletes the whole word. I'd like it to leave word.var instead

Dominant language
Vim Script
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