sublime text 3: key-bound commands for jumping to next and previous space

Question

In vim, f<space> and F<space> move the cursor forward to the next space and backward to the previous space, respectively.

Is there a command in Sublime Text 3 that does the same? If so, please demonstrate its use in a key binding.

Answer 1

Ctrl + Left & Ctrl + Right moves the caret by word boundaries, including spaces.

You can alter the characters that dictate word boundaries in your User Settings by editing the word_separators value.

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Sublime Text also has Vintage Mode, which emulates many of VIM's functionalities including:
l, h, j, k, W, w, e, E, b, B, alt+w, alt+W, $, ^, %, 0, G, gg, f, F, t, T, ^f, ^b, H, M, L

Answer 2

Save the following code to:
/Packages/MoveToSpace/MoveToSpace.py

import sublime, sublime_plugin

class MoveToSpaceCommand( sublime_plugin.TextCommand ):
    def run( self, edit, mode ):

        view = self.view
        selections = self.view.sel()

        if len( selections ) == 0:
            return

        newSelections = []

        for selection in selections:

            spacePoint = None

            if mode.lower() == "forward":

                spacePoint = self.view.find( "[^ ] " , selection.end() ).a

                if spacePoint != -1:
                    newSelections.append( sublime.Region( spacePoint + 1, spacePoint + 1 ) )

            elif mode.lower() == "backward":

                spaceRegions = self.view.find_all( " [^ ]")
                spaceRegion_Count = len( spaceRegions )

                for index in range( 0, spaceRegion_Count ):
                    if spaceRegions[ index ].b < selection.begin():
                        spacePoint = spaceRegions[ index ].a
                    elif spaceRegions[ index ].b >= selection.begin() \
                    and  spacePoint != None:
                        newSelections.append( sublime.Region( spacePoint + 1, spacePoint + 1 ) )
                        break

        if len( newSelections ) > 0:
            view.sel().clear()
            view.sel().add_all( newSelections )

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Save the following code to:
/Packages/MoveToSpace/Default.sublime-keymap

[

    {
        "keys":    [ "ctrl+shift+=" ],
        "command": "move_to_space",
        "args":    { "mode": "forward" },
    },

    {
        "keys":    [ "ctrl+shift+-" ],
        "command": "move_to_space",
        "args":    { "mode": "backward" },
    },

]

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Included key-bindings are:

• Ctrl + Shift + Plus to move to the next space
• Ctrl + Shift + Minus to move to the previous space

You can change the key-bindings to suit your preference.