Modifying emacs forward-word / backward-ward behavior (to be like in vi/vim)

Question

What would be the easiest way to have the same kind of behavior that is in vim for the word back and forth navigation? In vim when you press \"w\" it moves a cu

Answer 1

Mostly a duplicate of this, which says:

(require 'misc)

Then bind whatever keys you want to forward-to-word and backward-to-word. For killing, create some simple functions that wrap these functions and do kill.