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Vim to Emacs - Ace Jump Mode

This post is part of a series:

  1. Vim to Emacs
  2. Vim to Emacs - Ace Jump Mode
  3. Vim to Emacs - YASnippets
  4. Vim to Emacs - Smart Tab

One of the things I miss from Vim is the wonderful Easy Motion which allows you to jump quickly to any word in the buffer.

Thankfully Emacs has a very similar package Ace Jump Mode.

Setup

Using Prelude setup was simple, create a file in the personal folder and it will be auto loaded when Emacs starts.

personal/ace-jump-mode.el

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(prelude-require-package 'ace-jump-mode)

(require 'ace-jump-mode)
(define-key global-map (kbd "C-c SPC") 'ace-jump-mode)

I’m using the prelude-require-package function to make sure the ace-jump-mode package is available just in case this is a new machine where the package has not been installed.

I then require the ace-jump-mode package and bind a short cut key to C-c SPC.

Now when I press Ctrl + c followed by Space Emacs asks for a Head Char: which will then highlight all words that begin with that Char. Pressing that char jumps straight to that Char.

A screen cast is worth a thousand words:

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