Same feeling here with easymotion, sneak and others. The built-in / with hlsearch on enter and nohlsearch on leave, together with the built-in <C-G> [1] for ne

Same feeling here with easymotion, sneak and others. The built-in / with hlsearch on enter and nohlsearch on leave, together with the built-in <C-G> [1] for next match and <C-T> for previous match **while still in /** provides a faster and more natural solution because no need to read labels. From :help incsearch, set incsearch augroup vimrc-incsearch-highlight autocmd! autocmd CmdlineEnter /,\? :set hlsearch autocmd CmdlineLeave /,\? :set nohlsearch augroup END From there, type / and search for 1,2,3... characters (however many you want) and see the matches on the screen thanks to hlsearch being turned on. Go to next/previous match with <C-G> or <C-T> as desired. To close the movement, hit enter as usual with /. For instance to delete until the second match of fum, type d/fum<C-G><ENTER> and it is very easy to follow the current match among all highlighted matches because the current match has a different color. [1]: see :help /_CTRL-G