Questions tagged [evil]
Evil Mode is a Vim emulation layer for Emacs.
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Evil mode "o" auto indent in text mode - how to turn it off?
When I press o in evil mode (which moves the cursor to the line under, and goes into insert mode), the cursor is indented by two spaces.
When I press o, the cursor goes
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This happens in text ...
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How add Evil keybindings to Magit, without removing all Magit prefix-keys
In magit status of a Git repository, you usually press f u to fetch from upstream (these keybindings in Magit will call magit-fetch-from-upstream).
With Magit keybindings I have noticed the letters ...
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How to use evil-next-line in a function when being in a visually selected mode?
Good day,
I wanted to use evil to move a few lines down or up at once, less than with evil-scroll-down/up, but more than one line.
I made a brief function:
defun go-up-few-lines ()
"Insert a ...
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Emacs Evil: Invalid function: evil-ensure-column
I am using evil in Emacs, and I get an error when I use the motions G or gg: Invalid function: evil-ensure-column. My Emacs version is 29.1, and the evil version is 20230919.2206. The motion G calls ...
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How to set "nojoinspaces" in evil mode
In vim, you can :set nojoinspaces to prevent J from adding a space when joining lines that end in a period. How do I set this in evil mode? I'm using Doom emacs, if that is relevant.
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How to enable evil-mode in Portacle?
I want to start learning Common Lisp and I want to use portacle for an IDE-like experience.
As I understand, portacle doesn't provide a normal init.el configuration file.
Instead, it uses a file in ...
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moving cursor forward-sexp goes one char further in evil mode
When I want to highlight the following region
(a ( b ( c ) ) ) )
I get
(a ( b ( c ) ) ) )
I mark the beginning and do forward-sexp (or sp-forward-sexp, which results in the same outcome)
In, insert ...
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keybinding which will respect minor mode override
I am trying evil mode and want to keep emacs's C-k when in insert mode.
C-k is kill-line
but when smartparens-mode is on, it's
sp-kill-hybrid-sexp
So I can't just bind C-k to kill-line in evil-insert-...
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evil, end of line in elisp mode, is hard to execute eval-last-sexp
(setq a "3")
If I want to evaluate the line, I'd go to the end of line and do (eval-last-sexp)
But in evil mode, the last sexp is "3" not the expression.
I can go to the next line ...
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Mixed display-line-numbers-type for evil users?
I want something like:
(setq display-line-numbers-type 'mixed)
Which count wrapped line as "relative", and count folded line as "visual"
Is there any way to achieve this?
Say I ...
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How to make my own evil(?) mode? view mode while debugging?
I'd like to switch between two modes
source editing mode
debug mode (where source is read-only, and you can use all other regular emacs commands + some debug related hot keys (such as n for next)
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hydra, let all keys work but not allow insert (self-insert-command)
I am setting up hydra + dap.
Although dap-hydra is provided, it messes up keybinding often times.
Often, I forget the hydra window is open and type something and messes up typing.
Furthermore, when ...
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Copying nvmap-defined keybindings to emacs-state using a different prefix key
I use general.el to define keybindings. For evil-mode, I've use nvmap, using something like the following:
(nvmap :keymaps 'override :prefix "SPC" :global-prefix "M-SPC"
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Keybinding breaks undo-tree with evil
A few months ago I noticed undo-tree was not working properly for me, though it had never been a problem in the past. Whenever I opened an existing file on my computer and edited it, trying to undo ...
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Keypress is not registered sometimes
I'm using evil mode and I've bound C-g to switch to normal state:
:bind
(:map evil-insert-state-map
("C-g" . evil-normal-state))
(:map evil-visual-state-map
("C-g" . ...
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define a new evil command
I'm trying to reverse some words, and I have it set up where I can visually select them and hit ,rw to reverse them.
How do I set it up so ,rw also works with a motion. E.g. ,rw3w to reverse 3 words?
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Prefix key in general package does not work with emacs start up page (fundamental mode)
I am trying to define key bindings with general.el following emacs from scratch. However, the leader-prefix key (SPC) does not seem to work from the Emacs start-up page (Fundamental mode). It works ...
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How do I properly use evil-set-jump? Doesn't seem to work if I pass a point position
I have my own function that essentially wraps outline-up-heading in Org-mode. It doesn't seem to take into account Evil's jump points, so Evil's C-o takes me to elsewhere. I'm trying to add support ...
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How to get a minibuffer state indicator for Evil's `evil-want-minibuffer`?
For regular buffers, Evil has a state indicator in the mode line.
But when using Evil in the minibuffer (by setting evil-want-minibuffer to t), there's no state indicator besides the cursor. Viper had ...
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How do I use a while loop with a macro?
This works when I remove the loop but with the loop it does not
work.
(defmacro my/def-key (state map)
(let ((x '(
(kbd "<leader>z z") (lambda nil (interactive)(message ...
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What is the relationship between Evil registers and ordinary Emacs registers/kill-ring?
I use evil and have gotten used to accessing the registers via :registers (in normal-mode).
This works fine for me except when I attempt to yank a URL or filename into a minibuffer prompt. In trying ...
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Removing a binding from evil-collection
evil-collection is mostly quite useful - but occasionally the default settings shadow my global bindings and I seem to need to restart emacs to remove the binding.
I bit up against this problem with ...
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Apply a hook only when in Evil's insert state
Is there a builtin mechanism that would allow activating a hook only when in the insert state in Evil. I want to add a hook to org-tab-first-hook but only run the hooked function in the insert state. ...
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How do I unbind the SPC key from a pdf-viewer window and use evil leader key instead?
How can I unbind the SPC keybinding from a pdf-view-mode window and use the evil leader key instead?
This is what I have currently:
(use-package pdf-tools
:ensure t
:config
(pdf-tools-...
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evil-mc binding shadowing my binding?
I use the binding grr for my own command in evil (along with lots of bindings started with gr standing for refactor). I recently enabled evil-mc and which stopped grr from working like it did before. ...
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Capital M is behaving weirdly in insert-state of evil-mode
I am observing a strange behavior in evil-mode that I'm unable to figure out what is causing it: In insert-state, pressing "M" does not insert a capital m as expected, but instead gives me ...
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DOOM Emacs: Error running hook "global-git-commit-mode" because: (void-variable transient-base-map)
Full error (on the bottom line): Error (doom-first-file-hook): Error running hook "global-git-commit-mode" because: (void-variable transient-base-map)
Hello! I'm running this on an M1 chip ...
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Spacemacs keybinding not behaving as expected
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 ...
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change environment in evil-tex
I'm discovering evil-tex, it seems great : I already like the possibility to switch from equation* to equation and vice-versa. There is a manipulation I do very often which is to change \begin{...
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In Dired, How to disable (or unmap) SPC from executing dired-next-line?
What I want:
While in dired, want to disable/unbind <SPC> from dired-next-line
Reason:
I use j or <C-n> to dired-next-line in dired,
I never use <SPC> as to go next line.
I use &...
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Change cursor blinking status upon state change of evil-mode
I'm using evil-mode.
My goal is to have a blinking cursor upon entering evil-insert-state, and to have a non-blinking cursor in evil-normal-state.
I tried the following but it doesn't work:
(add-...
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how to get correct indentation in haskell-mode in spacemacs
When in haskell mode indentation is not working quite how I expect it to.
When pressing enter in an "else" statement the cursor goes to the beginning of the line instead of the correct one ...
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Evil Mode: How to get 'q' to kill Occur buffer + window
I recently started using Doom Emacs. I'd like to use Occur mode more frequently (via occur, multi-occur, etc.), but every time I open an Occur mode buffer in a split window, the only way to kill the ...
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How to add prefix to suggestions in evil-mode?
Spacemacs has a way to add prefix descriptions with (spacemacs/declare-prefix ...). However, some evil-mode keybindings are lacking prefix descriptions. For example, in evil-mc g r is the prefix for ...
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How to create an evil-delete-previous-line command?
I am trying to create a command which deletes preceding whole lines, just like evil-delete-whole-line, but backwards.
So far I have the following
(evil-define-operator delete-previous-line
(beg end ...
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evil-insert-state disables the active input method
A recent update must have slipped my testing afterwords and now this hook mu4e-compose-mode-hook does not work anymore.
On every new email I must set the input-method manually again.
Any ideas about ...
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use vertico completion also in evil's ex-prompt
I am using evil-mode and now want to use vertico for completion. I've got it setup so it works when I hit M-x, C-x C-f, C-x C-b, etc. However, it doesn't work in evil's ex-prompt (the command prompt ...
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Seamlessly replace a keyboard input key sequence
I need something like abbrev, just without any extra spaces, including spaces which trigger the replacement. I experimented with keyboard shortcuts, like this:
;;(general-auto-unbind-keys)
(global-set-...
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How to configure initial evil-state for major mode
When calling
M-x bm-show-all
Emacs is in normal state. I've to push the "i" key to switch to insert then hitting Enter on a bookmark goto that bookmark. I tried this :
(use-package evil
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evil text objects for code object at point?
I use text objects with evil like "i(" for the contents of the brackets. I would quite like "magic code aware text objects"?
This textobject would:
return the entire function if I ...
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How do I select the nearest `evil-text-object` enclosed in one of () [] {} <> without having to provide the paren char explicitly
I have problems when using the suggestion from here Code faster by extending Emacs EVIL text object
(require 'dash)
(defun jds~evil-paren-range (count beg end type inclusive)
(->> '((?\( . ?\))...
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Is there any way of making evil mode work inside list-packages?
I've installed the evil package to make emacs keybindings more like vim. After installing it I put the following lines on my .emacs file:
(require 'evil)
(evil-mode 1)
It works fine when I'm editing ...
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Evil-mode's delete inner-sentence command deletes a paragraph
Evil's evil-inner-sentence seems to select an entire paragraph. For instance, if I do dis somewhere in a paragraph it deletes the entire paragraph instead of just the sentence. This is also the case ...
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Evil keyboard movement extends mouse selection
My Setup
Emacs 28.1
Evil version 1.15.0
Gnome 42.4 wayland
Observed Behavior
In default emacs (GUI), with no init file, if you highlight a region with mouse 1 and then use a keyboard movement, the ...
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Make evil-ex-search-word-forward to respect region
I'm dealing with a tiny, yet annoying (to me) feature of Evil.
My evil-search-module is set to evil-search. Why that is relevant explained in this post
When I invoke evil-search (bound to * in normal ...
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Is there a library to make `'evil-goto-mark` restore the screen position of the marker?
I use emacs and evil. If I set a marker using 'evil-set-marker, scroll elsewhere in the file, and then execute 'evil-goto-mark or 'evil-goto-mark-line, the window will scroll back until the position I’...
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org mode tables slowed down by evil mode
I am trying to create a table in org-mode like that (/ is where my cursor is)
| this is a test | foo | bar |
| ---------/---- | --- | --- |
If I now press enter, emacs hangs and I have to interrupt ...
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(evil-scroll-up COUNT) not working in Spacemacs
I am trying to make this shortcut work:
(global-set-key (kbd "<s-C-M-S-return>") '(evil-scroll-up 8))
But it is not working.
If I remove the COUNT:
(global-set-key (kbd "<s-C-...
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How to turn from command to insert mode at the end of my elisp interactive script?
I am using Evil (Vi keybindings) in Spacemacs.
Let's say I have something like that:
(defun myfunc-org-insert-custom-stuff ()
(interactive)
(insert "This is custom stuff "))
but I would ...
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How to delete a function on which a cursor is in Spacemacs?
Let's say I have this:
(defn -main [& args]
(my-func|tion 5) (my-function-2 "hello")
(third-function-of-mine nil))
where | is my cursor.
And I want to delete (my-function 5).
So in ...
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