Tip 11: Don't Count If You Can Repeat

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Example: compare the following three ways of deleting two words

Way #1: d2w

Way #2: 2dw

Way #3: dw.

Here the author prefers the third one because he thinks that counting is tedious.

Use a Count When It Matters

Here the author prefers using the count because he thinks that counting gives us a clean and coherent undo history.