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Re:Show HN: Ki Editor - the multicursor syntactical editor by mroche on Friday September 13, 2024 @03:58PM (#41534582)
> in vim it's wwwww

You may also want to try out <num><action> methods while in normal mode.

    # Move forward 5 words
    5w

    # Move 20 lines up
    20k
The latter paired with relative line numbering can be really handy.
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Re:Show HN: Ki Editor - the multicursor syntactical editor by kragen on Friday September 13, 2024 @07:58PM (#41536299)
yeah, that's why i said 'so i don't have to count them first' (the reason i have a computer is so it can count things for me) and used words rather than lines. i agree that relative line numbering is a big plus here
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