One thing I sometimes miss about the text editor Brief, which I stopped using a decade ago, is being able to move between windows easily by pressing a function key and then an arrow key to switch to a window in that direction.
In emacs I only knew how to move between windows using `other-window', mapped to C-x o and that only cycles around the windows, and if you have a few windows open and possibly you're also editing the mini-buffer, that's quite a round trip.
I just learned about `M-x windmove-default-keybindings', which binds a set of commands that do exactly the kind of directional movement I'm talking about (`windmove-right', `windmove-up' and so on) to the cursor keys (with shift key held).
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Heh, Brief was one of the first proper programmers editors I ever used. Fantastic little program.
Great find, window navigation has always been a bit of a pain point for me on Emacs.
i'm assuming then that you know that you can put:
(windmove-default-keybindings)
in your .emacs and get those keybindings by default without having to type M-x win... ?
If not, then you're welcome :)
and for info on how to bind it to some key other than shift (some people use shift-selection):
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WindMove
Yes, I have added it to my .emacs perhaps I should have mentioned that ;-)
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