Can I remap WORD or “W” key in VIM normal mode?

Question

Can I remap WORD or W key in VIM normal mode? The original W traverse text separated with white space. I'd like the motion W to be mapped as traversing text-object including word and . , - .

For example:

some-object=another.object

if I press viW on some-object I'd like to see some-object selected rather than some-object=another.object selected as in the original setup.

Is there a way for me to make this change? Where should I look up in vimdoc?

Answer 1

You could lookup in vim-help with

:h WORD
:h motion

I just did this and my guess is, you have to write a function and map it to W . I read :h WORD (capital letters!) that there is no way to change the standard definition of a "WORD"