I have heard of the power of Emacs, but I have a ton more experience with vim and an extensive amount of shortcuts in my .vimrc file. I would like to transfer these mappings over to Emacs evil-mode. What would be the best way to do this? One example would be mapping tab to >> (indenting the current line). Which looks like nnoremap <tab> >> in my .vimrc.
Taken literally, your sample line would translate to the following:
(define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "<tab>") (kbd ">>"))
Although I don't personally recommend this. It's much cleaner to reference the function you want to run by name instead of using a keyboard macro. This clears up the need for a distinction between nmap and nnoremap, and is more fault-tolerant.
(define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "<tab>") #'evil-shift-right-line)
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1How did you know the command was evil-shift-right-line? Experience or is there a library? – Jason Basanese Feb 24 '16 at 4:57
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2In general, you can use
C-h kto determine what command a key runs. Howeverevildoes hide some things behind proxy-commands (e.g.evil-shift-right) to make the composable grammar easier. In this case, you just have to know that aneviloperation that works on a whole line is usually<op>-line. Examples includeevil-delete-line,evil-yank-line. Some operations, likeevil-downcasedo not define such convenient aliases, so you need more magic to get them to work. Ask if you need help for those. – PythonNut Feb 24 '16 at 5:00 -
1so one cannot just "run the
.vimrcscript I had when text editor in Evil opens up? – Pinocchio Jan 20 '19 at 19:57 -
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.vimrc, rather than a catch-all question. – PythonNut Feb 24 '16 at 4:57.vimrcscript I had when text editor in Evil opens up? – Pinocchio Jan 20 '19 at 19:57