[wcarss]

As a longtime vim user, I don't see how vim makes going to the Nth logical column (for several values of N in different rows) in a large "CSV-like" file much easier.

Navigating in general is easier, sure, but... do you have a trick to share perhaps?

[izolate]

    58G 63f,

1. Go down to line 58

2. Jump to the 63rd comma

3. Edit

[wcarss]

Fascinating, thanks!

I had never seen/used `f` to navigate within a line like this -- I'm usually just typing /<string> and hitting enter to scan forward.

[pluies]

This could lead you to the wrong place if, for example, some quoted values on this row contains commas, no?

[alpaca128]

In those cases it gets a bit trickier but still relatively straightforward thanks to regex-based search. If needed frequently you can also just create a keybinding that does the regex typing for you.

Though I'm usually in the position where I create this kind of file myself and so I just go with semicolons as column separators. Those are much less likely to cause such collisions.

[izolate]

100%. It's not infallible. There are CSV plugins for Vim that bring increased confidence.

[dharmab]

EasyMotion makes it effortless.

https://github.com/easymotion/vim-easymotion

[juancampa]

Something like this works as long as there are no commas within a cell.

  58G63f,

Takes you to cell at 58:63 (might have off-by-1 errors, don't know)