How to position cursor at a particular column (beyond the end of the line)?

Question

Given this:

2022-07-28 Gå tur med Marvin
motion:rolig                           ...
motion:intens                          .

2022-07-29
motion:rolig                           ...
motion:intens                          ..

2022-08-08
inboxing                               .
folkets:support                        .
some

How to get from here                   to here?

how do I come from 'some' on the last line to the column with the periods without manually inserting all the spaces and without using tab characters?

EDIT: How to get the cursor from WORDs on the left to the column of periods on the right?

Answer 1

You can put set virtualedit=all in your vimrc to allow cursor to be positioned anywhere, even where there are no chars, and then you can use the normal mode command 80| to move the cursor to the 80th column and start typing.

Or, with the cursor on the ., you can simply move down one line (with j) and the cursor will remain in the same column.

See :help virtualedit