I’m with you on the words or character part. As others have said for line numbers using relative numbers makes it easy. I end up doing stuff like dt( to delete

I’m with you on the words or character part. As others have said for line numbers using relative numbers makes it easy. I end up doing stuff like dt( to delete up until the opening parenthesis or ci’ to to delete inside quotes. Otherwise as you said I’ll spam the keys till I’m at the point where I want.