quick-scope VS targets.vim

Quick scope! https://github.com/unblevable/quick-scope but I don’t think it works in neovim. It’s the best

QuickScope makes jumping using f/F much quicker by highlighting letters/numbers you can jump to directly or in two jumps using F;/f;. Highly recommended: https://github.com/unblevable/quick-scope

Speaking of f and t, one of my favorite plugins is unblevable's quick-scope, which highlights letters to let you jump to any word within the line using f and t in three characters or less.

I almost never used them too until I added this plugin, it made it a lot easier and faster to navigate

quick-scope - with vim-sneak -> I am speed

quickscope / eyeliner (lua version of quickscope)

TL;DR: eyeliner.nvim is quick-scope but in Lua. Check it out!

I'm aware of quick-scope and the likes, but those provide hopping.

targets is nice too.

The thing that has the biggest impact on me is ci”, ca”, da”, etc.. so I suggested getting used to using those.. and then you can get more pedantic with it using https://github.com/wellle/targets.vim

I do recommend getting, targets.vim https://github.com/wellle/targets.vim .. which unlocks the n(ext) and l(ast) verbs(?) ..ahhhh it’s REALLY REALLY good, I use 2in” like a lot

In fact, as /u/Chillbrosaurus_Rex points out, there's a plugin, targets.vim, that expands on Vim's built-in text objects, and one of the things it does is to provide this kind of forward and reverse direction functionality.

Hey, I use targets.vim, how does it compare with that?

You might benefit from targets.vim, it works well with your thought process. It adds a bunch of new really useful editing targets (which should be builtin imo).

https://github.com/wellle/targets.vim

Thanks for the through explanation. I has seen that and considered using it in the past. Can I ask how it compares to https://github.com/wellle/targets.vim? Would you consider mini.ai a replacement or complementary?

This is provided by targets.vim, along with a bunch of other useful text objects.