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I have to do a lot of hopping in lines.
Often times I want to hop to a t in a line, and promptly press ft, only to discover that I have to do it 7 times before I can actually make it to my destination.
I'm trying to think of ways to eliminate this time waster. Is there a way to find a bigram instead, so fts would hop to ts in a line?
The sneak plugin provides that functionality.
By default, it's bound to the s key, so you would need to use sts for your example. The documentation also gives example mappings to put sneak's functionality on the f family of keys or to enhance the standard 1-character searches with some of sneak's other improvements.
The easymotion plugin also provides functionality like that. Easymotion is considered to be larger with more features, both come highly recommended. Maybe someone needs to write a review of both, while checking them out...
f with two instead of 1 characters. While easymotion highlights every occurence and let you jump directly with enumerations. Easymotion has this functionality also for search, and can even search and jump over multiple splits. But Sneak is more flexible, allowing you to use it in a normal command chaining. F. E. d2<sneak>ts is perfectly fine while d2<easymotion>ts won't work. Also sneak is repeatable with ;. (Feel free to correct me, if it is also possible with easymotion)
– Doktor OSwaldo
Apr 21 '17 at 6:02
. instead of ;. Which one is "right" or "better" is of course a matter of debate.
– mike
Apr 22 '17 at 7:16
easymotion-overwin-f2 function, which enumerates all matches. Also can't repeat the easymotion-overwin-f2 function with . what am I missing ?
– Doktor OSwaldo
Apr 24 '17 at 5:42
Besides the plugins mentions, there are several other plugins available, that extend the f and t motions. Among there are clever-f, vim-fanfingtastic and my own ft-improved.
At least for my plugin I can tell you, that you can configure it, to check for several following characters. You have to set :let g:ft_improved_multichars = 1 in your vimrc for that.
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/ts<CR>it will be four keys instead of three... – Sundeep Apr 20 '17 at 4:32fcommand with;. And also use a count for that, for example, you pressft, then see that you have do do 6 more jumps, you can press6;– Doktor OSwaldo Apr 20 '17 at 6:18;for me was remapped to:. Perhaps its time to remap that. – Akiva Apr 20 '17 at 22:50