Re: Suggestion: Ace-window in Emacs core for switching windows?

[Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Given that we already have windmove, would the addition of ace-window
> really change that much?

The same argument could be used for many packages that we have in core.
Who needs Gnus when you have rmail, and so on.  The packages do
basically the same thing, but in very different ways.

I don't use ace-window myself, but note that it is the 28th most popular
package on MELPA with 1,773,799 downloads, only slightly behind
'which-key' in popularity that we just added to core.

See: https://melpa.org/#/?sort=downloads&asc=false

Until we figure out how to bundle GNU ELPA packages, something that has
seen little progress in a long time, I think there is a case to be made
for adding some of the more popular packages to core.