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Besides what's everyone has said so far, what I love the most about my emacs is that the only thing I have on my screen 95% of the time is code. No side file tree, though helm find files has a sweet UI I use hundreds of times a day. Magit is there in three key strokes and out when I'm done giting. My window navigation is sweet. Sometimes I have zero splits, sometimes I have a dozen, and it's easy to navigate between each split, resize them, undo split modifications etc. My flycheck shows me errors in a great UI when I need it and doesn't show when I don't. Same with helm-imenu that that shows me classes, functions, methods and attributes when I need them and only then.

I'm sure you can do that with all the editors, but when I see peeps using VScode or myself using Xcode, everytime close to 50% of the workspace is filled by stuff I only need temporarily.

Emacs let's me see code most of the time, yet has all the classical IDE features one could dream of. <3

I'm using Emacs since 10+ but the one thing that never worked for me is window switching with more than two windows. Do you use C-x o to switch between multiple windows or what do you use?

That's what I currently use to switch quickly:

    (use-package ace-window
        :defer t
        :init (key-chord-define-global "ii" #'ace-window)
        :config
        (setf aw-scope 'frame))

Try this:

  (use-package window-numbering
    :ensure t
    :config
    (window-numbering-mode))

This will rebind M-1 through M-0 to become window-switching keys, and also display each window's number in the modeline. I've been using this for years now, and haven't found anything else that beats the speed of pressing M-1 through M-5 with my left hand (I rarely have more than 5 windows per frame).

Thanks, have added and configured it -> the power of Emacs.

Not OP, but I’ve had same difficulty switching among windows.

I remap “other window” shortcut to something more convenient. See https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/3471

You can also use WindMove, built into emacs (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WindMove) and use Shift, and arrow keys to move from one window to the other.

Yes, I use ace-window as well: (global-set-key (kbd "M-o") 'ace-window)

Combined with maximize-window and winner-undo, I'm in heaven :)

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