Choose window to select when there are more than two visible [duplicate]

Question

When I have four windows visible and I want to move from one to another, I use C-x o. But that cycles through the windows in a predetermined order, namely:

1 3

2 4

Without intending to do so, just because my brain and fingers go on auto-pilot, I've fallen into the weird habit of using a combination of C-x 0, C-x 1, C-x 2, C-x 3, and bury-buffer (which I've bound to C-x c) to select the buffer I want while keeping them in a chosen order.

Is there a more direct way for me to move from window 1, say, to window 4?

Answer 1

You can achieve the behaviour you want using ace-window package. Calling ace-window (if you have just two windows open, will just switch to the other window) will highlight the first character of each window and pressing said character will switch you to that buffer. Here's a gif demonstrating how it works.

You can also use avy package to switch between open windows.