fussy-avy

Typo-tolerant avy jumping. Like avy-goto-char-timer, but it doesn’t abort when you mistype.

Type “footar” and it still finds “foobar”. Space matches any non-word char, so “with ” matches “with-“.

Commands

• fussy-avy-goto-char-timer - Typo-tolerant character jumping
• fussy-avy-goto-char-timer-orderless - Multi-word sentence jumping (see below)

Orderless Mode

Use fussy-avy-goto-char-timer-orderless for jumping with multiple words.

Type space-separated words and jump to any sentence containing all of them:

Buffer: "a fox trout on a meme"
Input:  "fox meme"
Result: jumps to "fox"

• All words must exist in the same sentence
• Word order in input doesn’t matter
• First word = jump target
• Each word supports fuzzy/typo-tolerant matching

Installation

(use-package fussy-avy
  :ensure (:host github :repo "bergheim/fussy-avy")
  :bind (("C-'" . fussy-avy-goto-char-timer)
         ("C-\"" . fussy-avy-goto-char-timer-orderless)
         :map evil-normal-state-map
         ("g " . evil-fussy-avy-goto-char-timer)
         ("g\"" . evil-fussy-avy-goto-char-timer-orderless))
  :custom
  ;; (fussy-avy-max-distance 2)      ; max edit distance (default 2)
  ;; (fussy-avy-min-input-length 3)  ; chars before fuzzy kicks in (default 3)
  ;; (fussy-avy-all-windows t)       ; search all windows (default t)
  :custom-face
  ;; (fussy-avy-match-exact ((t :background "green")))
  ;; (fussy-avy-match-fuzzy ((t :background "orange")))
  :config
  ;; (fussy-avy-max-forgiving)       ; crank it up: distance=4, min-length=2
  )

Dependencies

• Emacs 27.1+
• avy