Avy Alternatives

avy reviews and mentions

• The Canon Cat, the forgotten 1987 alternate-reality Mac (2019)
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jun 2024

  The "leap" description makes me think of emacs' avy https://github.com/abo-abo/avy

  The interface should not be too hard to reimplement as an emacs mode.

  One more project on the "someday" list...

• Is there an Obsidian plugin similar to AceJump for IntelliJ IDEs or avy for Emacs?
  2 projects | /r/ObsidianMD | 16 Apr 2023

  What I'm looking for is something like AceJump for IntelliJ IDEs or avy for Emacs. These tools let you navigate to some part of the visible text with just a few keystrokes. Here's the behavior I would like in Obsidian, copied from AceJump's page:

• Vim-like “jump” cursor for Mac OS Window Management
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Apr 2023

  For my emacs friends, here's a wonderful package that provides the same functionality: https://github.com/abo-abo/avy

  And, if you're interested in some historical context for this "type characters and jump to point" functionality, the Canon Cat: https://youtu.be/o_TlE_U_X3c

• Kill until next char preceding space | Uppercase | underscore
  4 projects | /r/emacs | 1 Mar 2023

  Personally I've learned to do things the "Emacs way" and got used to its killing behavior. For multi-line stuff I would mark the region and then use navigation commands to get the point where I want it. For more complex scenarios I use either C-s/C-r or just use avy to get the point where it needs to be. For single line stuff I think M-z works well. Maybe this package could be useful to you as well? Just some ideas, I think there are actually many options here (including going over to evil ;) and it depends on your preferences and needs.

• Today Is International Mouse Arm Day. Do you use the mouse in Emacs?
  2 projects | /r/emacs | 28 Feb 2023

  I make extensive use of avy for these kinds of situations.

• org-metadown in regular text!
  2 projects | /r/emacs | 16 Feb 2023

  Avy (avy-move-line) can do it very nicely and interactively for you, see this video.

• [Spacemacs] Is bidirectional easy motion possible in spacemacs?
  2 projects | /r/emacs | 20 Nov 2022

  It sounds like avy is what you're looking for?

• Navigate to positions within long words
  2 projects | /r/emacs | 24 Oct 2022

  Perhaps avy. I would use the commandavy-goto-char-2 then type N a and the corresponding jump key (if it appears). avy-goto-subword-1 is a bit more niche but might also work well.

• Leap.nvim: Neovim’s Answer to the Mouse
  27 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Oct 2022

  I'm jumping around on the screen using -> https://github.com/abo-abo/avy#avy-goto-char

  This UX does not break my flow (it doesn't require focus/conscious thought):

    1. Press  +  while looking at the place I want to jump to

• Nested/conditional keybindings to navigate in text
  4 projects | /r/emacs | 14 Sep 2022
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