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I have a file with several lines like so:
{"latin": "", "french": "", "italian": "", "catalan": "", "portuguese": "", "romanian": "", "spanish": "", "english": ""}
I want to quickly move between the empty quotes to enter data. Is there a short-cut that could be used here?
f" jumps to the next quote, and F" jumps to the previous one. 3f" jumps three more quotes, and so on. This seems enough to me. If the cursor is inside the quote, and you want to jump to the position just before the ending quote, t" may be used, and similar is said of T". In your case, e (jump to the last character of the current word) and b (jump to the first character of the current word) also do the same thing.
; in normal mode repeats the last fFtT command, allowing for even faster movement.
, repeats the last search as well, but searches backwards on the line.
Mar 10, 2017 at 15:01
; and , are commonly remapped (to : and mapleader respectively), so if anyone is using a vimrc copied from the internet the default behaviour may not work.
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