Spacemacs keybinding not behaving as expected

Question

The following keybindings work when simply moving. However, when pressing d and then one of these keys, the behavior is not as expected.

When pressing dL it will delete until the end of the page. When pressing dH it will delete until the top of the page.

I suspect that there are some default bindings for these keys that are not overwritten. Is there a delete state map that I need to define this for as well or something I need to specify to overwrite the keys?

(define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "H") (kbd "^")) ; H goes to beginning of the line
(define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "L") (kbd "$")) ; L goes to end of the line

Answer 1

The ^ and $ is bind to evil-motion-state-map through evil-define-motion, so you need:

(define-key evil-motion-state-map (kbd "H") 'evil-first-non-blank)
(define-key evil-motion-state-map (kbd "L") 'evil-end-of-line)