In Terminal Emacs (no mouse), I'm using split windows to work with multiple buffers at the same time. I'm finding moving between the split windows much more painful than how I do it in Vim. Reading the documentation it looks like I'm doing it correctly (C-x o), but that just cycles around the windows in a clockwise direction. If I move to an adjacent window to make a quick edit, I need to hit C-x o a few times before I'm back where I was. Sometimes I accidentally press it too many times in a hurry and have to cycle all the way back through the windows again.
Far from install yet-another-external-package, is there any way I can just either move directly to a window (by, say, a number), or at least cycle around the windows in the opposite direction?
In Vim C-w C-w is like C-x o in Emacs, but there's also C-w ARROW to move in a specified direction... something like that? :)
Add this to your init file:
(windmove-default-keybindings)
Then you can use SHIFT+arrow to move to the next adjacent window in the specified direction.
You can specify a different modifier if you prefer, by passing an argument (defaults to 'shift).
Or just bind whatever you like to these functions:
windmove-upwindmove-downwindmove-leftwindmove-rightYou can also add FrameMove to the mix, to make this work transparently across multiple frames.
For numbered window navigation, there's switch-window.el.