vim-sneak

Agree. vim-sneak is the answer to this, you can reach anywhere with maximum 3 key presses. It's very intuitive and easy to pick up. If I had to pick only one Vim plugin it would be sneak. https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak

Hm - I can't see how this is functionally significantly different than EasyMotion[1] or Sneak[2]. Not a knock on it - just curious if I'm missing something. My problem with these types of plugins is that, although it's a bit more annoying to type out a few more characters, with my vanilla Vim workflow I can pre-compute the motions in my head - I can figure out I need to type d7l or whatever way before I get to the point in my editing where I need to, and as I'm typing it out I'm already thinking about what I want to do next. With sneak, easymotion, or leap, it looks like I can't actually figure out what keys I need to press to get to where I want until I've already started the motion. That means I need to take some time to read the label, etc. So maybe I've saved a few milliseconds of not having to type one or two more keys, but I lose th

I've been programming in Vim for a very long time and even though I use some of the available jump commands, I still find it very useful to have a fast key repeat rate. In most cases it's simply faster to start going to where I want to go, instead of calculating how many character to jump left or right, how many lines to jump up or down or find the closest unique pattern of symbols to search for. It's just bizarre that Mac OS has such a small cap on the Key Repeat rate. Wondering if there is a way around this. Edit: I do have a powerful plugin [0] for jumping which I often use, but still - in some cases I just want to scroll all the way there. Fast. [0] - https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak

> vi in Unix highlights the amount of time you spend watching the screen as you cursor around with hjkl vi is four decades old. It's not the pinnacle of keyboard-driven interface design, vast improvements have been made since then. For example, I use vim-sneak, which lets you jump to anywhere on your screen in 3 keystrokes flat 99% of the time (and the 1% of the time where you miss, well, 99% of those times, just one more keystroke is all it takes to get to the right spot): https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak I also use relative line numbers, so I can select or delete most blocks of text in 3 or 4 keystrokes, for example d4j deletes the current line and the next 4 lines (5 lines total), or d23k deletes the current line and the previous 23 lines (24 lines total): https://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/vim-number/ Obviously number of keystrokes isn

This plugin is working quite well for me: https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak

This is similar to the vim-sneak plugin for Vim: https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak It's very useful.

> One day they will come up with an advanced keyboard layout that keep hjkl movement keys, and I'll give it a try. Everytime I read this kind of argument, I tell myself “Surely, I must be using Vim in a weird way”. I really don't use hjkl that much, compared to test objects or search (or on my setup, sneak[0]). [0] https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak

I know you said that you like maintaining a super minimal .vimrc, but fwiw there's a couple of plugins that really helped me with the workflow issues you mentioned struggling with: > Jumping around in longer texts: I know the basics, like searching (/), jumping to a matching bracket (%) or jumping to specific lines (for line 10, type 10G), but I still could use symbols more often for navigation. vim-sneak is real nice for this, and has turned into one of my most-used movement commands https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak > Using visual mode for moving text around: Sometimes it can be quite complicated to type the right combination of letters to cut (delete) the text I want to move around. That's where visual mode (v) shines. It highlights the selected text. I should use it more often. vim-move was a game changer for me https://github.com

I find vim sneak better than easy motion: https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak This is so popular, it made it to emacs too: https://github.com/hlissner/evil-snipe I love the 2 char lookahead/lookbehind. It is so fast and useful.

w irritates me, because it always traverses a bunch of miscellaneous symbols, and my brain can't parse fast enough to easily tell in advance how many times I'll have to press w in order to get where I want. Extremely minor, but extremely niggly annoyance. I've found myself using https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak more and more often.

You might find vim-sneak useful: https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak. https://github.com/easymotion/vim-easymotion is another plugin that does something slightly different, but also useful.

His is the best of the all. https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak

I think he did ;) https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak

I find vim-sneak works well for me, as it tries to extend "vim's natural language" so to speak. https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak Otherwise relative numbers and gj/ gk work well enough for me when it comes to moving vertically to a position I can see on the screen.

vim-sneak[1] is a less bling-bling alternative to easymotion. I originally wrote it to address the sub-optimal valley between Vim's built-in near-distance (f, t, ...) and long-distance (/) motions. It also tries to avoid the hesitation that easymotion introduces, by avoiding the need to select a label if the first match is correct. [1] https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak