Question

I came across an interesting package that does fast navigation by character, but I can’t find it anymore, and can’t remember its name. Apparently the idea came from vim. There is definitely an emacswiki page for it.

Basically, you press a key to enter a minor-mode, enter a search term, and it dims the window, and sequentially highlights all occurences of the search term in the window. Then you can press ‘a’ to go to the first one, ‘b’ for the second, etc.

Any help?

Edit: I’ll add the vim tag, since the vim package name will be enough for me to find it.

Answer 1

ace-jump-mode seems
to be what you’re looking for.

The inspiration for AceJump comes from a vim plugin called
EasyMotion.
EasyMotion provides a much simpler way to use motions in vim. It
takes the out of w or f{char} by
highlighting all possible choices and allowing you to press one key
to jump directly to the target. So I decided to write something
similar for Emacs.

This minor mode gives you the ability to:

• jump to a word
• jump to any characters in a word
• jump to a line

The wiki page is also available on the
Emacswiki.