Questions tagged [evil]
Evil Mode is a Vim emulation layer for Emacs.
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Prevent mouse click from changing cursor position while in insert mode
I work on a laptop most of the time and it happens somewhat often that while inserting some text (in evil mode) I will accidentally hit the touchpad with my thumb, changing the cursor position and ...
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How can I use evil-mc in spacemacs?
This question is a semantically similar question but the OP's intent was more about which implementation of multiple cursors was "best".
I echo one of the commenters of that question who asked "Can ...
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How to remap the search backwards evil-ex-search-previous command of evil?
I want to remap evil-ex-search-previous to some other key than ,.
I tried
(define-key evil-motion-state-map "," 'evil-avy-goto-char-in-line)
(evil-define-key 'normal magit-mode-map ",&...
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Completing underscored words without making _ a word character
I would like to use evil-complete-previous (or whatever) to
complete strings_such_as_this, which is by default not possible.
It is possible after (modify-syntax-entry ?_ "w"), but this
has the ...
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How do I make Evil's C-o work with Org's C-c C-o?
Org mode's org-open-at-point (C-c C-o) works great for internal links, e.g.
Stuff to buy:
- <<food>> food:
- tomato
- potato
- banana
- <<drinks>> drinks:
- juice
- ...
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Can behavior of `W` be changed by modifying syntax entries?
I want dW and dB to not delete brackets in racket (all 3 kinds [, (, {).
I'm looking at changing W and not w because w is still useful for changing parts of an identifier, e.g. I can easily change ...
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Doom emacs dired +ranger not obeying evil-mode
I am using doom emacs and in my init file I have (dired +ranger)
The problem is when I open dired, I cannot press tab to select for example. I have first to toggle off evil-mode. If I do, I lose all ...
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how do I do case sensitive searches using evil/spacemacs?
I'm trying to perform a search and replace in spacemacs but I need it to be case sensitive when by default it appears to be case insensitive. So I try to do :set noignorecase but then I have this ...
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C-i combination doesn't work with lowercase i [duplicate]
I've configured Doom emacs to run an interactive evil-ex command in visual mode, the reaconfiguration is as below:
(defun evil-insert-into-lines ()
(interactive)
(evil-ex "'<,'>norm I&...
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Removing and adding newlines around expressions
I am in the process of formatting a couple of hundred markdown files and am trying to automate that process. I am having two problems, but I guess I can ask two questions ;)
Goal
I am trying to ...
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How can I prevent pasting after org-copy-visible leaving cursor at end of text?
In evil-mode, if I use 3yy to copy three lines, then move somewhere else in my file and do P (evil-paste-before), the three lines are pasted before the line with the cursor, and the cursor is left at ...
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How to write the result of running an external command to a scratch buffer?
I'm running this ex command in evil mode:
:%!grep -E "^\#"
how can I write the result to some arbitrary buffer, instead of replacing the content of the current buffer?
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Override org-mode indentation function in evil insert mode
How can I override the org-mode indentation function of TAB in evil-insert-state-map? I'd like it to always fold and unfold the current or parent header, and switch the indentation functionality to ...
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Evil, How do I display visual range in mode-line
I'd like to see the size (number of rows and/or columns) of the visual selection in my mode-line. I use evil. How do I do that?
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How to act on the currently highlighted search result with evil mode?
When using evil mode search, is there a way to act on the currently highlighted search result by...
Converting it into a selection.
Treating it as a text object.
Having the ability to specify the end ...
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Close only code folds using evil
How do I close all code folds (but not comments) with evil's code folding?
For now I'm using evil-close-folds and evil-open-folds, but it closes all folds, including comments.
I'm using spacemacs 0....
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Vim help on Emacs using evil-mode?
It would be nice to have the help system present in Vim when using Emacs evil-mode (:help command). I searched online and could not find a way to do this since only the native Emacs C-h help menu is ...
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Is it possible to replicate vim-unimpaired [p paste behaviour?
Evil-unimpaired (https://github.com/zmaas/evil-unimpaired/) tries to replicate vim-unimpaired, but the paste behaviour is just a dumbed down version of the original.
The evil-unimpaired behaviour on [...
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Make Evil Mode “s” key behave like Vim
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.
Is ...
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Start in insert state based on minor mode
I would like the org capture buffer (which IIUC is in org-capture-mode, a minor mode) to start in insert state; It seems that both the evil-insert-state-modes variable and the evil-set-initial-state ...
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How to use Ctrl+K as evil escape?
I understand that the way to rebind the "escape" function while using the eVil mode is something on the lines of (setq-default evil-escape-key-sequence "jj"). But I want to set my &...
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Using evil and org-mode, as my file size grows, there is increasing delay in any command that changes text
There is only delay when changing text: navigation all works instantly, as normal.
The delay has gotten to about one full second now, it's getting pretty bad. The file is around 15,000 lines long, ...
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Simulate vim splash screen
I've been trying evil mode in emacs. Unfortunately, it does not remind me to "Help poor children in Uganda!" when I start emacs.
Is there a simple way to simulate this? Hopefully there's just a ...
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Generate dynamic keybindings depending on keyboard layout
This is a bit of an esoteric request so I will try to phrase it clearly.
I am currently beginning to learn colemak and doing so through a series of transitional layouts that go by the group name of ...
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Use hydra with evil motions
I'm trying to use a hydra to dispatch among a selection of motions. See this minimal example:
(defhydra hydra/test (:color blue)
"This is a test hydra"
("n" evil-next-line))
(evil-define-motion ...
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How to use C-j C-k to move window in term mode using evil?
The bindings of C-j C-k to evil-window-down[up] work well every where apart form term mode. term mode rebinds these to C-w j C-w k - this is super annoying!
How can i make term use the C-j/C-k ...
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Evil keybindings in reftex-toc
I would like to bind j to reftex-toc-next and k to reftex-toc-previous whilst in a reftex-toc buffer. According to the documentation, the keymap active in *toc* buffers is reftex-toc-map. I'm using ...
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Evil Org-Mode set L and H to tabbar movements
I can toggle org-mode TODO status with L and H when the pointer rests at a org heading. I wish I could bind those keys to tabbar-"movements" to mimic the behaviour I get in all othem mode with this ...
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spacemacs - rebind existing keys
I am trying to rebind j, k key as well as capital E, B and Y, but cannot get them to work. Any pointers?
I put this into my .spacemacs (in dotspacemacs/user-config):
(evil-define-key 'normal key-...
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Jump to location in org-mode while properly unfolding headings
I'd like to find a way to jump to a location in an org-mode file while automatically unfolding only the heading at the location I'm jumping to and all its parent headings (but not any sibling headings)...
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How to insert/dump all keyboard macros at once?
Is there a way to show all keyboard macros (similar to insert-kbd-macro) without having to first name each macro?
Using macros with evil-mode in case this makes a difference.
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Archive all marked entries with evil-mode
I recently switched to evil mode and cannot figure out how to archive all marked entries at once.
The way I did it earlier, when I was in a list seeing the candidate entries for archiving I pressed * ...
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Issue binding space as leader with evil-mode and general mode
I am currently trying to set up my config so that I can use evil-mode while also using the space key as a local leader for some command while mapping my keys with general.el package.
;; hide tool bar
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change evil operators to be non-greedy
I notice that some of the evil around operators are greedy. As in they grab space around the surrounding delimiters. One such operator is the a".
Assuming that my cursor is | when I use va" the ...
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Have Ctrl-a increase a number just like in vim
In spacemacs Ctrl-a is being used to move to the beginning of the line. I'm more used to 0 to move to the beginning of the line and $ to the end, which works in spacemacs.
Ctrl-a increases numbers in ...
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add-hook evil-insert-state-entry-hook is not calling the function
Update: It worked properly somehow after disabling and enabling nyan-mode.
BUT there is no evidence indicating any relationship between them. Because I can't reproduce this problem after it was ...
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How do I set evil mode to use the normal state by default in Customize mode?
When I open the Easy Customization in Emacs, I want to be in normal mode instead of emacs mode. Is that possible?
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How to copy one register to another?
In vim :let @"=@* will copy the content of* register to the " register. How can it be done with evil?
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How can I make terms searched with `*` or `#` populate the search history?
In my attempt to have * and # work in Spacemacs as they do in Vim, I've followed the solution posted at this question.
Those keys now work, but there's one hurdle more to overcome: the searched term ...
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How <dd> evil keymap works?
d seems to be bound to evil-delete which requires beg and end arguments. I suspect they are somehow obtained from d motion. Let's say I have defun my-delete-line (body). What should go in body to ...
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Preserving evil mode search/replace command history
In evil mode, I use a lot of search/replace with %s/pattern/replacement. I have
(evil-select-search-module 'evil-search-module 'evil-search)
in my ~/.emacs file. However, some of the past search/...
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Dvorak input mode wrong letters when typing fast, correct, when typing slow
I have dvorak keyboard layout set as input when I am in evil-input mode. However, when I type relatively fast when typing the I get thd. This is just an example, some other "typos" occur as ...
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How to loop over keymaps and assign keys?
If I have a key binding I want to apply to multiple keymaps, for example.
(evil-define-key 'visual c-mode-map (kbd "C-M-?") 'c-comment-from-c++)
(evil-define-key 'visual c++-mode-map (kbd &...
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`M-f` doesn't move to next line in evil-mode
This happens on the Emacs splash page primarily. I can move back to the end of the previous line with M-b but cannot move onto the beginning of the next with M-f.
As an experiment, I'm going through ...
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Regex to handle unicode strings in evil mode
I'm using evil mode on Emacs2 27.1 on OSX. My goal is to search and replace some text containing unicode strings using either of emacs' replace-regex or vim's search/replace functionality.
To begin ...
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pipe result of elisp function to a shell command
I wanna pipe the output of an elisp function (emacs-version) to a shell command (xclip). How can I do this?
I accept vanilla emacs and evil solutions.
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show which package repo was used to obtain a package
I'm trying to submit a bug report to emacs-evil, and they ask me from which repo evil was installed.
I'm just using the version that came bundled with doom-emacs.
How can I know which source was used ...
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evil-mode exec register ignores pipe
In vim, assume :r!ls | grep foo is in the register l.
You can then do: @l to exec ls | grep foo and insert the contents matching foo in to the current buffer.
In evil-mode I get:
Usage: grep [OPTION].....
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Adding a custom keybinding in Doom Emacs
I am using evil-mode and am very new to emacs and doom. How would I be able to map Ctrl-s to :w or save. Also, how would I be able to bind Ctrl-n to neotree-toggle? I have been searching and trying ...
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doom-modeline module with line(w) status
As the title implies, what package or feature does line(w) denote? When active, it deletes lines in evil-insert-state upon pressing Enter and then i immediately afterward.
