Re: efficiently navigating and the jumplist

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TL;DR: I often use <count>j and <count>k to jump to other lines (with
'relativenumber' enabled).
Is it possible to add those jumps to the jumplist?
And/or what are more efficient ways of jumping to lines which are
visible on the screen?

Thanks, and my excuses for my previous mail which was obviously too
long :)
Jeroen

On 01/10/2013 05:39 PM, Jeroen Budts wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Although I have been using Vim now for over two years now as my
> main text editor, I often still have the feeling that I'm not very
> efficient in navigating through a file, more specifically through
> the part of the file which is on my screen. Most of the time when
> I can see the line where I want to jump to I will use a count
> together with the j or k command. I use 'relativenumber', so I can
> easily see the correct count. However, this still feels a little
> inefficient, as my eyes first have to find the line I want to jump
> to, then carefully (without loosing track of the line) look to the
> left to find the correct number, then my fingers have to enter the
> correct number and finally I can press j or k. So far the jumplist
> has also always felt rather confusing to me. Yesterday I finally
> discovered why: I think of the method how I move to specific lines
> as being a 'jump', because in fact, the cursor jumps to another
> line in the file. However, Vim doesn't think of this as being a
> jump. The reason for this is that a j and a k without a count are
> obviously not jumps.
>
> So now I'm wondering what my options are to navigate efficiently
> and be able to use the jumplist correctly at the same time? Some
> ideas: - maybe I should simply use search a lot more? Just typing
> what I want to find is probably equally fast as looking at
> linenumbers, and searches are jumps - Make use of H M L to jump
> 'near' the line I want and then use j / k? that would at least add
> some positions to the jumplist, but feels very inefficient also. -
> stop using 'relativenumber' and use a count with the G command.
> This fixes the jumplist but then I would have to enter longer
> numbers in most cases and I loose the benefits of relativenumber
> (for deletions etc). - remap j and k so that they would calculate
> the correct linenumber and use the G command instead, but only if
> the count is larger then 5 for example?
>
> Wouldn't it be possible to add a configuration option to Vim to
> make the jumplist recognize 'jumps' with j and k? For example
> 'minimumjumplines' which can be set to an int. When 0 the
> behaviour is as it is now; when set to a value greater than 0, it
> will add a position to the jumplist when using j and k to move the
> cursor up/down at least that number of lines (when not in operator
> pending mode)
>
> Thanks a lot for any suggestions! Jeroen
>

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