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The problem with ; is that it doesn't work with t. It just leaves the cursor in the same place, because that's exactly what your t command would do if you typed
by to3m 14y ago
The problem with ; is that it doesn't work with t. It just leaves the cursor in the same place, because that's exactly what your t command would do if you typed it again.
It's now some years since I used vim regularly but I recall this regularly annoying me when trying to create visual selections. For example, I'd do "vt," (or whatever) expecting the selection to extend to a given point, and then find myself stuck at a , that I hadn't noticed. And then I'd have to move the cursor by hand to fix things, just like you would in some ordinary text editor.
- zefhous 14y agoThat's odd. With my configuration I can use ; with t and it will skip over an occurrence of the target if it is the next character, like it seems you expect it to behave. I don't know if this has been fixed/improved in Vim itself or by some plugin that I use, but it does seem to be fixed now.
- kps 14y agoIn vim, the ‘new’ behaviour (skipping the target if there would be no motion) is the default, and the original vi behaviour can be selected using cpoptions; see :help cpo-;