Two-character jump labels
Every jump so far needed a destination you could name: a line number, a search pattern. Often the place you want is just a word you can see. For that there is one more goto-mode command:
gw— jump to a word on screen by typing its two-character label
Press gw and every word in view is overlaid with a two-letter label.
Type those two letters and the cursor jumps to that word; press any other
key to cancel. The labels are assigned fresh on every press — words near
the cursor get the earliest letters — so read them off the screen rather
than trying to remember them.
Only what’s currently visible gets a label, and very short words are skipped, but two keystrokes plus a label reach almost anywhere on screen without counting lines or typing a search.
One honest note: in current Helix a label jump records a jumplist entry
like any other jump, but the build in this embedded editor predates that,
so Ctrl-o won’t bring you back from one here.
The checklist below has you hop around the file with nothing but gw.