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by austintaylor 5110 days ago
In my experience, if you are counting characters or lines in regular vim editing, you are doing it wrong. The smarter jump commands, text objects, and a high key repeat rate are all far superior to counting 20 characters. I do use counts a bit with w/W for words. The main advantage is making your edit in a single command so you can reuse it with dot.