delete word after or around cursor in VIM

Question

I\'m now switching to VIM from TextMate. I found ^+W in INSERT mode very useful. However, I\'d like to delete not only the word before cursor, but

Answer 1

To delete the entire word your cursor is on use diw
To delete the entire word your cursor is on and to put you in insert mode use ciw
if you dont want to delete the entire word but delete from where you are the dw/cw