Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Re: What's the best way to move to an arbitrary location on your screen?

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 01:20:14PM -0700, jeroen wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 9:41:09 PM UTC+2, Ben Fritz wrote:
> >
> > Then I will usually use f, F, t, or T, or a / search, or w/W/b/B to get to the correct column, possibly with an initial _ or g_ to position the cursor at the beginning or end of the line (or ^ and $, but I use Dvorak making _ and g_ much faster to reach).
> >
> > Using f/F/t/T is nice because I can follow it up with ; or , if I didn't supply the right count, and I have a mapping which will highlight all the matching characters within the line so I can quickly get the count right on my second try if needed.

> Would you care to share this mapping? It seems very interesting.

it isn't Ben's exclusive mapping, it's everybody's -- see:

:h f

f is the linewise search command -- it is famous for the fact that it
searches current line only (and to the right only).

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