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Movement keys in other IDEs like JetBrains is still lacking in my opinion. I haven't seen another IDE which lets you move between buffers(documents) as easily as Emacs. I've tried a bunch of IDEs and will support one style of movement like move split right / left but lack something like move other split etc...

Another thing is that Emacs movement is also very fast relative to some IDEs which sometimes pop up other windows which you have to interact with like in JetBrains Switcher.

That being said if you write IDEs just look at how fast, easy to configure, and complete buffer movement is in Emacs. We want these features!




You should set your keymap to Emacs then, its pretty close, and very cool.




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