> That's not terribly useful unless you're dealing with a lot of numbers Make no mistake: that is terribly useful, even if you're not dealing with a lot of num

> That's not terribly useful unless you're dealing with a lot of numbers Make no mistake: that is terribly useful, even if you're not dealing with a lot of numbers. You just found out about it so maybe you haven't realized it just yet. The mere fact that it accepts a count (i.e. 10<C-X>) and it's repeatable with the dot operator makes it a killer feature. To make the shortcut smarter and able to deal with dates and times I recommend vim-speeddating by Tim Pope: https://github.com/tpope/vim-speeddating https://github.com/tpope/vim-speeddating