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Doom Emacs' s key does not behave like Vim's implementation. In Vim, s deletes the character under the cursor and puts you into insert mode whereas Evil Mode performs a search, similar to f and t.

  1. Is this something that can be changed?
  2. If not, what was the reasoning behind s not working like it does in Vim? It seems like most bindings work as expected, except for this one.
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  • This is not the behavior of Evil mode. I'm guessing doom has changed its binding. While under evil-normal-state, what is the output of C-h k for s?
    – TerryTsao
    Dec 2, 2020 at 4:49
  • Thanks for this. I wasn't aware that I could look up the mapping so easily. It's mapped to using evil-snipe.
    – zakrywilson
    Dec 4, 2020 at 23:55

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Having this is your init file will make s function as it does in Vim:

(define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "s") 'evil-substitute)

But this will replace the current functionality of s, so you will have to map its current value (C-h k s) to something else.

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Running C-h k for s revealed that evil-snipe was mapped to s and S.

I found a Doom-specific solution, provided by the creator to add to config.el which allows for all evil-snipe functionality to remain the same:

(after! evil-snipe
  (evil-snipe-mode -1))

Source: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs/issues/1642#issuecomment-518711170

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