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My wife was unimpressed by Vim
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Relative lines means each line except the one your cursor is on is relative to your current line. Like this:
5 5k jumps here
4
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1
6 your cursor is here
1
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8 8j jumps here
The main reason I like it is I don't like mouse ergonomics. Keeping my hands on the keyboard just feels better
Yes I understood that. My point is how often do you know you need to move a line exactly 17 lines? Do you count them? Clearly much slower than doing it interactively by holding down ctrl-shift-down for a bit.
Thoose are line numbers in IDE. You don't count them, you see them
Line numbers are absolute, not relative (normally anyway; I think some editors allow showing relative line numbers). Anyway I think holding down (page) up/down is going to be just as fast.
There are both modes for absolute and relative line numbers in vim. Holding up/down might be intuitive nd easy to remember, but saving 1 second everytime you need to do this can add up pretty fast