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A lot of the time, you want to be using a more meaningful (as in semantic) command like } or ]] or / - my Vim navigation improved a lot once I started understan

A lot of the time, you want to be using a more meaningful (as in semantic) command like } or ]] or / - my Vim navigation improved a lot once I started understanding / as a navigation command i.e. a "go where I know this text is" rather than just "find where this text is". But when you do need to move by lines, `set relativenumber` is very helpful. I have both `set number` and `set relativenumber` in my Vimrc, so I get relative numbers for all other lines except the current one. For the current line, the absolute line number in the file is displayed (which is more useful than the relative "0").

rendall 5y ago
> A lot of the time, you want to be using a more meaningful (as in semantic) command like... I try never to second guess why someone wants to know something, and if I answer at all, to answer the direct question. Otherwise it might come off as patronizing and gate-keeping. As an asker, I'm much more open to hearing the answer to an unasked question when I have the answer to my asked question. My least-favorite genre of dev answer is Q: "How do I X?" A: "Don't X. Y instead." Also, part of the awesomeness of Vim is that it's personal, how someone uses it. If information is structured in lines in someone's mind, and it makes more sense for them to navigate that way, they aren't doing it wrong.