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Agreed, I do the same.

But in an IDE, that motion is "Cmd-F, <type>, Enter". Vim's not inherently superior there.



My point wasn’t that the ability to search a file is unique to vim, but that counting words to use w or b isn’t really part of the work flow.


OK, but then I'm not clear what part of the workflow is claimed to be unique to Vim, then.


I was explaining what the workflow in question is, not claiming that is was unique to Vim necessarily.




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