How to move forward 'x' characters, crossing newlines

[Roy Fulbright]

I'm tracking down an error message that says the error is at character 2310 in my input JSON file, and I need to know how to move the cursor forward 2310 positions including newlines. I'm sure it's something simple, but I cannot find anything in help.

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[Tim Chase]

On 07/06/12 15:51, Roy Fulbright wrote:
> I'm tracking down an error message that says the error is at
> character 2310 in my input JSON file, and I need to know how to
> move the cursor forward 2310 positions including newlines. I'm
> sure it's something simple, but I cannot find anything in help.

For this particular use-case, I think you want the "go" command:

  :help go

so you'd type

  2310go

It's a little trickier to move forward/backward by a given number of
bytes from an arbitrary starting location, but as long as you just
want to get to the Nth byte in the file, "go" should do the job.

-tim



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[Christian Brabandt]

Hi Roy!

On Fr, 06 Jul 2012, Roy Fulbright wrote:

> I'm tracking down an error message that says the error is at character 2310 in my input JSON file, and I need to know how to move the cursor forward 2310 positions including newlines. I'm sure it's something simple, but I cannot find anything in help.    

If your 'whichwrap' setting contains '<,>' it shold be possible to
simply use Right with the count, e.g. 2310<Right> (or as ex command:
exe "norm! 2310\<Right>"
)

(provided your cursor is at line 1, column 1


regards,
Christian

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[Christian Brabandt]

Hi Tim!

On Fr, 06 Jul 2012, Tim Chase wrote:

> On 07/06/12 15:51, Roy Fulbright wrote:
> > I'm tracking down an error message that says the error is at
> > character 2310 in my input JSON file, and I need to know how to
> > move the cursor forward 2310 positions including newlines. I'm
> > sure it's something simple, but I cannot find anything in help.
>
> For this particular use-case, I think you want the "go" command:
>
>   :help go
>
> so you'd type
>
>   2310go

But that moves by bytes, not by characters.

regards,
Christian

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[Roy Fulbright]

> On Fr, 06 Jul 2012, Tim Chase wrote:

>
> > On 07/06/12 15:51, Roy Fulbright wrote:
> > > I'm tracking down an error message that says the error is at
> > > character 2310 in my input JSON file, and I need to know how to
> > > move the cursor forward 2310 positions including newlines. I'm
> > > sure it's something simple, but I cannot find anything in help.
> >
> > For this particular use-case, I think you want the "go" command:
> >
> > :help go
> >
> > so you'd type
> >
> > 2310go

Thank you very much! That was exactly what I was looking for.
 
P.S. I also added < and > to whichwrap and was able to do: 2310<Right>

 

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[Tim Chase]

On 07/06/12 16:24, Roy Fulbright wrote:
>>>   2310go
> Thank you very much! That was exactly what I was looking for

As Christian correctly calls me on it, that does operate by bytes
and not by characters.  For all of the work I do, I limit myself to
the lower 7-bit ASCII and insert my upper characters with escape
codes (which are also 7-bit), so it's never an issue.  In case you
have multi-byte characters in your data, YMMV.

-tim


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[rockybalboa4]

Dnia 6 lipca 2012 22:51 Roy Fulbright <[hidden email]> napisał(a):


> I'm tracking down an error message that says the error is at character 2310
> in my input JSON file, and I need to know how to move the cursor forward 2310
> positions including newlines. I'm sure it's something simple, but I cannot find anything
> in help.
 
2310go
gg02309<SPACE>
with default whichwrap (b,s)
 

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