Question

I’m looking for quicker ways to navigate in vim.

Say, I open the following text in a buffer:

Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient
text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed
with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware. If
you find Vim a useful addition to your life

Currently, my cursor is on line 1, character 1.

If I want to move the cursor to the start of the word version,
that would rather slow by using simple cursor movement (hjkl keys) to move to the specific line and character.

Now, I’m looking for the command that you could use, like ' perhaps?. So you’d just need to type something like 'version, and the cursor jumps to that word.

I hope this is possible (do I need a plugin for this?)

Answer 1

If you are before the point you want to go:

/version then <Enter>

If you are after you want to go:

?version then <Enter>

For more info type:

:help search-commands