ftw

Easy window navigation in emacs

Install

• Clone this repo somewhere
• Add the following to your ~/.emacs:

(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/cloned/repo")
(requre 'ftw)

• If you want it to be on always, add the following as well:

(ftw-mode 1)

Leader Key

I use evil mode ("boo", I know), so the default prefix binding for ftw is "C-a", since I don't need to use it to get to the beginning of the line. If you do however want to set the leader to something else, There is a function ftw-set-leader-key to do this. Let's say you want to to set the leader key to "C-;", you would add the following to your ~/.emacs after loading the package:

(ftw-set-leader-key "C-;")

Usage

As I said above the leader key is "C-a" by default and can be changed. I will use "C-a" below for the sake of simplicity.

• C-a V splits the current window vertically
• C-a H splits the current window horizontally
• C-a h moves to the window left of the current window. If there is no window to the left, this does nothing.
• C-a l moves to the window right of the current window. If there is no window to the right, this does nothing.
• C-a j moves to the window below the current window. If there is no window below, this does nothing.
• C-a k moves to the window above the current window. If there is no window above, this does nothing.