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Re:Vim clutch by hq1 on Thursday June 21, 2012 @03:40PM (#4143834)
Just

  :set relativenumber
You won't have to count anymore.
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Re:Vim clutch by dllthomas on Thursday June 21, 2012 @06:51PM (#4144573)
Not really going to help you for 20h...
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Re:Vim clutch by hq1 on Friday June 22, 2012 @02:41AM (#4145743)
Difficult to disagree. However if you use 20h, you're probably doing it wrong and should use w/e/f instead.
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Re:Vim clutch by dllthomas on Friday June 22, 2012 @12:33PM (#4147488)
Usually, yes. The two places I find myself using a count on h or l are 1) in nonce key bindings, and 2) when there's a lot of instances of what I want to jump to near the start of a long word, followed by a gap without the character, followed by where I want to jump. If I'm faced with www.wikipedia.com/something/wouldyouchangethis it's simple to say 10lfwcw - if I'm off by 5 in either direction it doesn't matter and ballparking like that is easy.
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