going to a particular column number is not useful to me because my commands are not on punched cards with column numbers printed on them. going to a particular piece of text is, and ^r or ^s gets me there with readline (in vi mode or emacs mode). i don't want to mentally count how many characters are on the line before the place i want to go; i have a computer to do that for me
vi movement by words is useful though, and slightly easier than emacs alt-f and alt-b
going to a particular column number is not useful to me because my commands are not on punched cards with column numbers printed on them. going to a particular piece of text is, and ^r or ^s gets me there with readline (in vi mode or emacs mode). i don't want to mentally count how many characters are on the line before the place i want to go; i have a computer to do that for me
vi movement by words is useful though, and slightly easier than emacs alt-f and alt-b