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The missing motion for Vim :athletic_shoe:

18 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 1 story, 17 comments · first 2013-10-14 · latest 2025-05-18

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  1. …It's very intuitive and easy to pick up. If I had to pick only one Vim plugin it would be sneak. https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak
    comment by suprjami · 2025-05-18 · in Show HN: Hardtime.nvim – break bad habits and master Vim motions
  2. …experiences and if I'm off base though. [1]: https://github.com/easymotion/vim-easymotion [2]: https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak
    comment by johnfn · 2022-10-08 · in Leap: Neovim’s Answer to the Mouse
  3. …which I often use, but still - in some cases I just want to scroll all the way there. Fast. [0] - https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak
    comment by ggerganov · 2022-07-25 · in Ask HN: Increase Key Repeat rate on Mac OS beyond normal limits
  4. …miss, well, 99% of those times, just one more keystroke is all it takes to get to the right spot): https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak I also use relative line numbers, so I can select or delete most blocks of text in 3 or 4 keystrokes,…
    comment by laughinghan · 2019-12-18 · in Keyboard vs. The Mouse, Part 1 (1989)
  5. This plugin is working quite well for me: https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak
    comment by mbudde · 2018-11-22 · in Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal
  6. This is similar to the vim-sneak plugin for Vim: https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak It's very useful.
    comment by nerdponx · 2018-11-22 · in Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal
  7. …really don't use hjkl that much, compared to test objects or search (or on my setup, sneak[0]). [0] https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak
    comment by ealhad · 2018-08-27 · in BEAKL – Theory and observations to find the optimal keyboard layout (2017)
  8. …vim-sneak is real nice for this, and has turned into one of my most-used movement commands https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak > Using visual mode for moving text around: Sometimes it can be quite complicated to type the right…
    comment by darthlucio · 2018-05-20 · in Ten Years of Vim
  9. I find vim sneak better than easy motion: https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak This is so popular, it made it to emacs too: https://github.com/hlissner/evil-snipe I love the 2 char lookahead/lookbehind. It is so fast and useful.
    comment by lenkite · 2017-10-24 · in Seven habits of effective text editing (2000)
  10. …order to get where I want. Extremely minor, but extremely niggly annoyance. I've found myself using https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak more and more often.
    comment by sullyj3 · 2016-12-14 · in Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor
  11. You might find vim-sneak useful: https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak . https://github.com/easymotion/vim-easymotion is another plugin that does something slightly different, but also useful.
    comment by tomku · 2016-10-05 · in Vim Anti-Patterns
  12. His is the best of the all. https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak
    comment by lynndylanhurley · 2016-05-15 · in Vim-vertical: Get around 2-dimensionally in vim
  13. I think he did ;) https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak
    comment by egjerlow · 2016-05-15 · in Vim-vertical: Get around 2-dimensionally in vim
  14. I find vim-sneak works well for me, as it tries to extend "vim's natural language" so to speak. https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak Otherwise relative numbers and gj/ gk work well enough for me when it comes to moving vertically to a…
    comment by gbrown_ · 2016-05-15 · in Vim-vertical: Get around 2-dimensionally in vim
  15. …easymotion introduces, by avoiding the need to select a label if the first match is correct. [1] https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak
    comment by justinmk · 2016-05-15 · in Vim-vertical: Get around 2-dimensionally in vim
  16. > I jump around in documents by searching through them You might want to try vim-sneak. https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak
    comment by justinmk · 2013-12-16 · in Vim: Spacebar as leader key, CapsLock as Esc
  17. …the line-numbers column altogether (and display the current column:line in the status bar). [1] https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak/
    comment by justinmk · 2013-10-22 · in What is your most productive shortcut with Vim?