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'd like to delete not only the word before cursor, but the word after or around cursor as well.

In that case the solution proposed by OP (i.e. using ) can be combined with the accepted answer to give:

inoremap  daw

alternatively (shorter solution):

inoremap  vawobd

Sample input:

word1 word2 word3 word4
               ^------------- Cursor location

Output:

word1 word4