barhop.el

Note: Highly experimental package, really rough edges etc.

This package is based on a pretty simple observation: no one ever needs a shorthand for jjjjjjjjj, or kkkkkkk. But the keybindings are really convenient (C-9 j and C-7 k).

Another observation is this: speedbars are a neat idea, but they just always feel so goddamn heavyweight. They turn Emacs into Visual Studio.

So I combined these two observations and made a light-weight speedbar that utilizes C-<N> j for something better than "insert j times"! Barhop lists your open project buffers in a sidebar and lets you jump to them super easily.

Note: Don't expect a super polished package. I only published it to get some feedback and possibly inspire someone else to do something useful and creative with prefix arg + char. However, I actually use this package rather frequently, especially on larger projects which require lots of file jumping (Android, Yocto and similar projects come to mind).

Note: For now, counsel-projectile is a hard requirement due to lazy elisp.

Note: Evil users, stay far away! This probably won't combine nicely with your workflow.

Usage: Just bind barhop-mode to something convenient and you're good to go. C-<num> j jumps to buffer number num, C-<num> K kills it, C-<num> J jumps to it in other-window.