easymotion vim

[jjhiggz]

Description

In VSCode's vim emulation you have an easymotion mode that allows you to type in

<leader><leader>motion

EasyMotion provides a much simpler way to use some motions in vim. It takes the out of w or f{char} by highlighting all possible choices and allowing you to press one key to jump directly to the target.

When one of the available motions is triggered, all visible text preceding or following the cursor is faded, and motion targets are highlighted.

Then instead of doing that motion regularly, it will pull up easymotion which works like this: https://www.loom.com/share/65f7ff4745df4f85bc1cd3ca51afdf83

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Update: Although we don't highlight the target, you can get a similar experience already with the built-in Sneak Motion support, you just need to update your bindings.

[EdAyers]

keen for this outside of vim mode too

[clo4]

Related:

• Ability to easily jump to the beginning of any visible word in the active buffer #5289

[akasuv]

A must need!

[baldwindavid]

Related: Helix editor just added something similar based upon Amp's "jump mode" in helix-editor/helix#8875. I tend to agree with the reasoning behind this implementation...

While testing that PR we made the following observations:

• character based jumps (which require a character before tying a label) don't really hold their water, you can use f for simple cases and / (which we want to improve further) for complex cases. Compared to a jumpmode these commands work with multicursors.
• word base jumps can be useful for quickly repositioning the primary cursor.
• a simple implementation like in AMP without dimming, color changes and complex letter assignment based on distance, ... was not only a lot simpler to implement but also more predictable/less disruptive

[lucasvfventura]

Please consider the vim leap, other seem to mention it as well, #4934 (comment)

[akasuv]

hop.nvim is another good reference.