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What problem does a magical "does what I mean" undo solve that pressing ^W or ^H doesn't? At a minimum, your "superior workflow" is " ui" or "^Ou", both of which are more keystrokes and require your editor to read your mind.
Or my superior workflow is Alt-u or hold U, which is a single shortcut/keystroke, so you lose there as well The other issue with your attempt at solving undo without undo is that the deletion doesn't become part of redo, also a single word with a typo could be in the middle of a paragraph where you navigated with a trackpad, while ^W would delete near the current cursor position You don't need magic to fix the ubersi…
^W is ctrl-W.