I often find myself wanting to jump to the word starting with capital letter on the same line. Especially in Go where the methods you import package always starts with capital letters. E.g.

<> fmt.Println("Hello World")

When you cursor is at <> there are a few ways to quickly jump to Println:

  1. press w three times (because there is a dot)
  2. press fP
  3. press l many times until you’re at P

But it gets tricker when you have longer lines like this one:

<>	log := logging.NewLogrusLoggerLevel(logrus.InfoLevel)

If you want to jump to I of InfoLevel, you probably jump to end with $ then b to back one word. This is ok, but you have to think for a second: do I press w and hold until I’m there? Or do I jump to the end and move back?

I find myself using this one so often and it got really annoying. So I made this mapping:

" L/H to move to the next/previous capital letter of a word
nmap <silent> L :call search('\u[a-z]\*', '', line('.'))<CR>
nmap <silent> H :call search('\u[a-z]\*', 'b', line('.'))<CR>

It uses search function so it doesn’t add anything to your search register. I used H & L. It feels similiar to move left and right h & l, but faster.

It’s especially convenient because when I use this jump, I also want to query the documentation of such methods using K:

nnoremap <silent> K :call <SID>show_documentation()<CR>

function! s:show_documentation()
  if (index(['vim','help'], &filetype) >= 0)
    execute 'h '.expand('<cword>')
  elseif (coc#rpc#ready())
    call CocActionAsync('doHover')
  else
    execute '!' . &keywordprg . " " . expand('<cword>')
  endif
endfunction

So often I only have to press H followed by K - only three key presses including Shift when I moved to a line and wanting to quickly jump to a public exported method and query it’s documentation.