[Practical.vim (2012.9)]. DREW.NEIL.TIP49 Study Summary

Find by Character

The command to quickly navigate to a character in Vim is f

The The FX command does nothing. Vim searches forward for a occurrence of the "X" character, but no matches is found, so the cursor doesn ' t move. The FO command finds an occurrence of the ' o ' character, so the cursor was positioned on top of the first match.
fxThe command does not move the cursor because there is no x character in the paragraph, so the cursor does not move. The fo command found the character o, so the cursor moves to the first character o .

After using the f command, ; You can move the cursor to the next matching character, as follows

In addition, we can also use F t t T , the command to move the cursor to a specific character as follows:

FIn contrast to the query direction, move to the front of the f ； ， t next matching character and move to the back of the T previous match character, in contrast to the direction of the move.

These move commands can be used in conjunction with the Delete command d to quickly delete a specific range of characters, as follows:

First the command navigates to the f, location , , and then removes , all characters from the end except the period, so the command is t. positioned before the character . . drepresents the deletion.

In general, I tend to use and in f{char} F{char} Normal mode when I want to move the cursor quickly within the current line, W Hereas I tend to use the t{char} and T{char} character search commands on combination with d{motion} or c{motion} .
When you move quickly, you usually use f{char} commands or F{char} commands to change the text content t{char} T{char} .

[Practical.vim (2012.9)]. DREW.NEIL.TIP49 Study Summary