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As a Linux user, I'm kind of jealous of 1) Easymotion navigation in any GUI 2) seemingly vim emulation in arbitrary input fields? Does something like this ex

by sva_ 5y ago

As a Linux user, I'm kind of jealous of 1) Easymotion navigation in any GUI 2) seemingly vim emulation in arbitrary input fields? Does something like this exist on Linux?

zhengyi13 5y ago
Tiling window managers will generally give you re-bindable keys for any and all window navigation. In fact, for the emacs folk, there's already stumpwm, in which your window manager is configured and controlled from a running emacs instance. Arbitrary text field input, not so much. Sounds like a project :)
- KingMachiavelli 5y ago
  A lot of applications are using readline [1] as the backend for their text input or a readline like implementation. readline can/should provide emacs and vi-like controls. [1] https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/readline.3.html https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/readline.3.html
- Arcsech 5y ago
  I think you mean exwm, which is the window manager that runs in emacs. StumpWM is written in Common Lisp and is stand-alone, although folks often interact with it via emacs.
  - zhengyi13 5y ago
    Ack, you're right!
- sva_ 5y ago
  I do use a tiling WM (i3). I was specifically referring to the easymotion[0]-like navigation shown in the video. What annoys me most about windows is, that you have to resort to using the mouse for many things, and selecting things using something like easymotion seems powerful. [0] https://github.com/easymotion/vim-easymotion https://github.com/easymotion/vim-easymotion
fish45 5y ago
at first I was jealous of the GUI navigation, but then I realized I don't use any GUIs other than firefox, for which there are plenty of plugins. The Vim emulation is pretty cool, the closest alternative I can think of is https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim, but I disabled it a while ago for being kind of clunky
johnisgood 5y ago
Easymotion, is it something like https://i.imgur.com/P10pNMI.png https://i.imgur.com/P10pNMI.png? I do want something like this for my tiling window manager. I think cwm comes closest to this as you can search for window titles and groups (?), and it handles prefixes/does auto-completion.

by sva_ 5y ago

As a Linux user, I'm kind of jealous of 1) Easymotion navigation in any GUI 2) seemingly vim emulation in arbitrary input fields? Does something like this exist on Linux?

zhengyi13 5y ago

Tiling window managers will generally give you re-bindable keys for any and all window navigation. In fact, for the emacs folk, there's already stumpwm, in which your window manager is configured and controlled from a running emacs instance. Arbitrary text field input, not so much. Sounds like a project :)

KingMachiavelli 5y ago
A lot of applications are using readline [1] as the backend for their text input or a readline like implementation. readline can/should provide emacs and vi-like controls. [1] https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/readline.3.html https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/readline.3.html
Arcsech 5y ago
I think you mean exwm, which is the window manager that runs in emacs. StumpWM is written in Common Lisp and is stand-alone, although folks often interact with it via emacs.
- zhengyi13 5y ago
  Ack, you're right!
sva_ 5y ago
I do use a tiling WM (i3). I was specifically referring to the easymotion[0]-like navigation shown in the video. What annoys me most about windows is, that you have to resort to using the mouse for many things, and selecting things using something like easymotion seems powerful. [0] https://github.com/easymotion/vim-easymotion https://github.com/easymotion/vim-easymotion

fish45 5y ago

at first I was jealous of the GUI navigation, but then I realized I don't use any GUIs other than firefox, for which there are plenty of plugins. The Vim emulation is pretty cool, the closest alternative I can think of is https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim, but I disabled it a while ago for being kind of clunky

johnisgood 5y ago

Easymotion, is it something like https://i.imgur.com/P10pNMI.png https://i.imgur.com/P10pNMI.png? I do want something like this for my tiling window manager. I think cwm comes closest to this as you can search for window titles and groups (?), and it handles prefixes/does auto-completion.