ace-jump-buffer is an extension for avy and the native bs buffer menu that lets you hop to Emacs buffers in 2-3 key strokes.

Alternately, you might be interested in this package’s spiritual successor - frog-jump-buffer - which is a newer, similar package that is more performant and flexible.

Install from MELPA with package-install ace-jump-buffer, or drop ace-jump-buffer.el, avy.el, and dash.el into your load path.

Open the buffer menu and go to the selected buffer in the current window.

Select a bs-configuration, then show its buffer menu and go to the selected buffer.

Open the buffer menu and go to the selected buffer in other window.

Open the buffer menu and go to the selected buffer in full window.

Show a menu of buffers of the same mode as the current buffer.

Show a menu of buffers in the current perspective (persp-mode required.).

Show a menu of buffers in the current project (projectile required.).

The max window height for the buffer menu. The default is 20.

The function for sorting buffers in the menu. Options:

• nil: Use the default (buffer-list) ordering [default]
• 'bs--sort-by-recentf
• 'bs--sort-by-name
• 'bs--sort-by-size
• 'bs--sort-by-filename
• 'bs--sort-by-mode

The bs configuration to use when displaying the menu with ace-jump-buffer. Options:

• "all": Show all buffers [default]
• "persp": If you use perspective or persp-mode, you may set this to scope the buffer list to your current perspective.
• "projectile": If you use projectile, you may set this to scope the buffer list to your current project.

The method of displaying the overlays for ace-jump-buffer. Defaults to 'at-full which is the default value of avy.

(make-ace-jump-buffer-function) takes two variables: a string name and the body of a buffer rejection filter function.

For example, if you wanted an ace-jump-buffer function for pulling up your *shell-mode* buffers:

(make-ace-jump-buffer-function "shell"
  (with-current-buffer buffer
    (not (eq major-mode 'shell-mode))))

This would create a bs-configurations option named "shell" and a callable defun named (ace-jump-shell-buffers).

0.4 - Changed the internal jumping library from ace-jump-mode to avy. ajb-home-row-keys was depreciated as the default avy-keys are set to the lower-cased home-row keys.

0.3 - Introduced a macro for easily making custom ace-jump-buffer filters and interactive functions