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Is there a shortcut to take you to the midpoint or the middle of a line inside VI? Ctrl + A and Cntrl + E are super helpful, but I'd love something that's Cntrl + M or something to take me to the line middle.

For example, if I make a spelling error in the following fictional command, it might be nice to have my cursor go to the bold (or near it) in order to fix the error rather than having to press the left or right arrow so many times

I am a terminal command **z**with a spelling error
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    f, z maybe?
    – Mark Setchell
    Dec 12, 2020 at 17:29
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    If your question is about vim, then I think gM does what you want. I don't think it's available in either readline's or zsh' vi-mode though. Edit: looks like it's only available since version 8.1.2231 too (see the changelog).
    – Marth
    Dec 12, 2020 at 17:41
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    – shellter
    Dec 12, 2020 at 17:51
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    This question is appropriate for Vi and Vim and @Marth you should post that as an answer.
    – filbranden ♦
    Dec 12, 2020 at 18:06

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In vim, you can navigate spelling errors with ]s and [s. That doesn’t address moving to the middle of the line, but it’s more efficient to go exactly where you need, no ?

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