 a sequence of non-blank characters, separated with white space. An empty line is also considered to be a WORD.</blockquote><p>word based motions:<ul><li><kbd>w</kbd> move to the start of the next word<li><kbd>b</kbd> move to the beginning of the current word if the cursor is <em>not</em> at the start of word. Otherwise, move to the beginning of the previous word<li><kbd>e</kbd> move to the end of the current word if cursor is <em>not</em> at the end of word. Otherwise, move to the end of next word<li><kbd>