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Re:Vim Anywhere by ibotty on Sunday February 18, 2018 @05:38AM (#16405393)
But w and b are not the end of vi's (let alone vim's/neovim's + plugins') motions.
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Re:Vim Anywhere by MaxBarraclough on Sunday February 18, 2018 @06:16AM (#16405517)
Sure, but it's not often I win big by using Vim's advanced movement commands.
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Re:Vim Anywhere by zweicoder on Monday February 19, 2018 @04:01AM (#16411653)
One of the most useful Vim motions for me has been repeating j / k for n times, e.g using 12j to jump down 12 lines.

Combined with relative line numbers (to show how many lines to jump up / down) this has been a really big win for me to navigate around text.

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Re:Vim Anywhere by jsjohnst on Sunday February 18, 2018 @12:41PM (#16407140)
Shift-G / gg are “big” wins for me on a fairly regular basis.
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Re:Vim Anywhere by MaxBarraclough on Sunday February 18, 2018 @01:20PM (#16407323)
That's a good example, but I suspect most editors/IDEs have their own equivalent shortcuts.

Apparently in Visual Studio it's SHIFT+CTRL+HOME.

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Re:Vim Anywhere by jsjohnst on Sunday February 18, 2018 @01:48PM (#16407471)
Not all keyboards have a home key and the vast majority have a shift/g key, but yes, i agree.
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Re:Vim Anywhere by ibotty on Monday February 19, 2018 @05:30AM (#16412008)
you don't use `)` or any other object motion? You should (consider)! `:help object-motions`
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