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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 exist on Linux?

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Easymotion, is it something like 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.

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 :)

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.

Ack, you're right!

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

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

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, but I disabled it a while ago for being kind of clunky

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