Simple keycombination to move to the last occurance of a character in a line

Question

I am looking for a simple few key command which would move till the last occurrence of a character in the line. Is there anything already existing?

The alternative is to jump to the next specified character and repeat the jump as many times as you need. It is not terrible; I am just curious whether there is there is something built into vim which could speed this up.

A use case could be to strip the absolute path only to the last directory.

Answer 1

Assuming that &virtualedit is all or onemore it's $lF/ (i.e. get one character past the end of the string, in case it ends in a searching character, and find char backward).

More robust variant (not to depend on &virtualedit) is ACtrl-\Ctrl-OT/Esc.

to jump to the next specified character and repeat the jump as many times as you need

[count]f{char}

Also to repeat by pressing semicolon (;)

Answer 2

Perhaps i'm just a vim noob and don't quite understand the previous answer about &virtualedit. in any case, my solution is:

1. Just to end of string with $
2. Search backwards to find first instance of character with F (note: capital f)
3. Type character you want to search for

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So for example, to find the last occurance of / in a url:

https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/24528/simple-keycombination-to-move-to-the-last-occurance-of-a-character-in-a-line

I would type $ F /

$ - moves my cursor to the end of the line regardless of where i'm starting from

F - starts to search backwards (works the same way as f but in the reverse direction)

/ - is the character we're searching backwards on