You’re using Avy wrong. Too harsh? Let me rephrase: you’re barely using Avy. Still too broad? Okay, the noninflammatory version: Avy, the Emacs package to jump around the screen, lends itself to efficient composable usage that’s obscured by default. Without burying the lede any further, here’s a demo that uses a single Avy command (avy-goto-char-timer) to do various things in multiple buffers and