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Re:Show HN: Zsweep – Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions by unformedelta on Friday January 23, 2026 @12:27PM (#46735144)
This was fun!

It would feel a little more intuitive if w/b worked on groups of unrevealed tiles instead of just moving 1 space when you were already on an unrevealed tile. i.e. unrevealed = words, revealed = spaces. That way, you could also use them to meaningfully navigate around unrevealed groups better than using h/l. I also found myself missing "e" to go to the end of a word, apparently I use it more often than "w".

I really appreciated the attention to detail though, I was delighted when I realized that gg/G/0/$ all worked as expected.

Re:Show HN: Zsweep – Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions by oug-t on Friday January 23, 2026 @04:37PM (#46738284)
That makes a lot of sense regarding `w/b`. I struggled a bit defining a word in the game cells.

I'll add `e` (end of word) support in the next push, too. Thank a lot for the feedback!