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 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.
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.
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.
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
The real killer feature for this is probably that it makes every textbox a little vim instance. Thanks to things like slack, discord, gmail, HN et al, I spend more time typing into OS default textboxes than I do managing windows, or some days even typing into emacs, and it'd be really nice if I could get all my fancy features in all of those input lines and browser textboxes. There used to be a way to do this on linux, but it'd bit-rotted last time I checked and I doubt there's been any progress on it for wayland.
Love to see this windows project! If anyone wants some MacOS Vim functionality everywhere, I have a small library I maintain for that: https://github.com/dbalatero/VimMode.spoon
I Can only recommend it.
I am forced to use windows for work.
I used it daily for the last year and it's so much better than Powertoy FancyZones .Plus vim muscle memory everywhere, regardless whether i'm in wsl, tmux, vim or windows.
It's said about Vim that it lets you edit text "at the speed of thought", because navigating documents, making edits and running commands are all available within the interface via a small set of keyboard commands. There are browser extensions that enable a similar interface within a browser: Vim navigation keys, a command mode for e.g. bookmarking or searching, every link being clickable with the keyboard. This provides the same interface for Windows.
Is this kind of haughty, stallmanesque middlebrow dismissal really necessary anytime someone writes an application for the most popular desktop OS on the planet?
Please stop. You're not helping. This is an ideological flamewar that's been going on for decades, with nothing to be gained by rehashing it again.
Except not every developer is a founder. Some developers simply work in the environment they're given, and tools like this make their life easier. On top of that, I know several non-developers who would likely jump on this tool.
Database administrators, network architects, and systems administrators to name a few are all technically savvy power users who may be more at home in a Linux environment.
Sorry, I thought the catchy humor at the end would put it in different terms, but I agree it was unnecessary, and wish I hadn't done that.
At the same time, I think, if the joke at the end didn't raise it to the level of flamewar, directing "haughty" and "middlebrow" at another poster would progress more in that direction.
If you came to the comments looking for the same thing, I'd summaries as:
Vim key bindings for Windows navigation