Question

I haven’t seen this asked on stackoverflow, and this is my biggest pain point in vim:

How do you all navigate within a file? I found myself using the hjkl too much, or too repetitively, and I want to get better at this. This is frustrating when you’re on a large monitor.

I installed EasyMotion – and so far it’s been good for me – I just want to know if there’s something better…

Thanks!

Answer 1

I like the cheatsheet of Ted Naleid. It’s like a reticle so you can easily find the horizontal and vertical movements. Put it on a wall next to your monitor and you will soon pick up new movements on the fly.

The movements that I liked recently are:

• () and {} which let you hop function wise in source code
• / and ? + n/N just search, you normally know where you want to go
• fx and tx – to jump to or before the next character x
  of course you can do a 2fx to jump to the second occurrence of x, like you can do with all movements
• % to move between starting and ending parenthesis