Vim motion vertical version of f & t?

Question

In vim, I really love f & t in Normal mode. Are there vertical versions of these? If not, what's the best way to jump so many lines downward to a word that I see? Do I just have to count the lines and do 12j or something?

Answer 1

Can you use /foo (or ?foo for backwards)? I tend to use that more than t or f anyway.

Answer 2

I think you'll love the EasyMotion plugin.

You'll type <leader>fb to go to a b, horizontally and vertically.

(you can also find the vim.org mirror git here)

Answer 3

Try vim-sneak, a plugin I wrote for this very reason. It enables you to jump to any location in three keystrokes by specifying the first two characters of the target:

s{char}{char}

For example, sab moves the cursor to the next instance of the string "ab". And Sab moves backwards to the previous instance of "ab".

It also supports:

• visual mode
• operations (like dzab, czab, and yzab)
• operation-repeat with .
• motion-repeat with ; and ,

vim-sneak is similar to vim-seek, with many improvements.