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

I made two mappings so I could get consistency in insert and out of insert mode.

:map <'Key of your choice'> caw

:imap <'Key of your choice'> <'Esc'> caw