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Quickly switch windows in Emacs
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ace-window vs other-window: changing frames #184

Closed pennersr closed 4 years ago

pennersr commented 4 years ago

ace-window is documented as:

"By default, behaves like extended `other-window'."

Suppose I have two frames open. The normal other-window behavior is that C-x o sticks to switching windows within the active frame. However, ace-window does not behave like that, and activates a window in another frame.

Is that intentional? Is there a way of preventing that? Ideally I would like to bind ace-window to C-x o but due to this difference in behavior I cannot.

abo-abo commented 4 years ago

You can configure:

(setq aw-scope 'frame)
pennersr commented 4 years ago

Thanks! Perhaps it is an idea to alter the documentation to clarify this.

"By default, behaves like other window, with the exception that depending on the value of aw-scope it switches to other windows within other frames as well.

abo-abo commented 4 years ago

Thanks.