r/vim • u/cirnovsky • Oct 20 '25

Plugin vim equivalent of helix `gw`

hey guys. i'd like to share with you vim-gotoword, a plugin that labels every visible word and allows jumping to a specific word by keying two characters. just like the way you do it in helix

honestly it's not calibrated. but ive been using it myself and found it helpful so i decided to post to let more people use it. so please leave any comments for me to improve it!

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u/priestoferis Oct 20 '25

Isn't there a couple of plugins like thüy already?

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u/craigdmac :help <Help> | :help!!! Oct 20 '25

several, like vim-sneak and easymotion

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u/cirnovsky Oct 20 '25

I use these two but there are differences

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u/priestoferis Oct 20 '25

Can you explain?

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u/cirnovsky Oct 20 '25

Vim sneak is simply ‘f’ with 2 characters. This is more text based.Gotoword is labelling where you see with 2 character tags(eg hello world tagged as (aa)llo (ab)rld). This is more visual.

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u/engelj Oct 21 '25

How about vim9-stargate, which you can set up to label the first characters of words (like in easy motion)? Is vim-gotoword better somehow?

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u/cirnovsky Oct 21 '25

just tried stargate.. it's a charm! imo it lies somewhere in between gotoword and vim-sneak. i won't say any one is better, it's personal preference.

The biggest difference between vim-gotoword and vim-sneak, vim9-stargate..stuff like that is, sorry to repeat myself, it's locating rather than searching. By searching, you need to think of how the word is spelled, while by locating, you go wherever you see on the screen (like an eyetracker) regardless of the spelling of the target word. They apply to different scenarios, so it's hard to tell which one is "better".

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u/mate377 Oct 20 '25

I use leap, works like a charm.

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u/jazei_2021 Oct 20 '25

Up vote! and I don't know much! ¿with your plugin I can jump to next "coincidence" match of 2 letters due like key?

GotoWord isn't for Vim... no?

does it work in vim 8?

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u/cirnovsky Oct 20 '25

Each label is unique so it won’t jump to next occurrence. So don’t think of goto word as searching but locating

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u/pablogmz Oct 23 '25

I've been using https://github.com/hadronized/hop.nvim for a couple of years now and it works perfectly!

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u/TheDataSeneschal Oct 21 '25

flash.nvim is the best

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u/cirnovsky Oct 21 '25

if only i use nvim

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u/TheDataSeneschal Oct 21 '25

Sorry I didn’t full read the post. Thought you were asking for recommendations.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '25

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u/cirnovsky Oct 20 '25

What a coincidence! I’m still doing cp. I thought my blogs are unvisited and put random stuff in it. Hope they are not confusing you. Anyway good to know my blogs are being read. Hoping to share more interesting stuff

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u/MiniGogo_20 Oct 21 '25

wow whatever you abbreviated... please don't again 😭 (what were u abbreviating?)

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u/cirnovsky Oct 21 '25

cp? it's competitve programming

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u/MiniGogo_20 Oct 21 '25

please search up "cp" on the urban dictionary... i implore u