Re: zt,zm,zb horizontally ?

On 2010-10-05, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:

> Alessandro Antonello <antonello.ale@gmail.com> [10-10-05 14:04]:
> > >> when browsing long lines (not wrapped) of text I often wish
> > >> to know whether there is something like zt,zm,zb for horizontal
> > >> movements.... ?
> > >>
> >
> > Type `:help |' and see if its help you.

> Hi,
>
> thank you for your replies!
>
> When there is need for jumping horizontally like z* does
> it vertically, the lines are very long (config scripts i.e.).
>
> '|' exspects a number of the column to jump to. Since
> the line in question gets right far beyond the limit of the
> terminal the total number of columns is not know. So
> the half of that number which would be needed to jump
> to the mid of the line in question is also unkown.
>
> Therefore '|' is not of help in this case.

Sure it is. Type '$' to move the cursor to the end of the line,
look at the ruler or type 'g Ctrl-G' to see the length of the line,
divide that number by two and use the result as the prefix to '|'.

Regards,
Gary

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