Questions tagged [evil]
Evil Mode is a Vim emulation layer for Emacs.
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how to enter into visual block mode in evil on windows?
in VIM on MS Windows, I could use C-q to enter into visual block mode. How about in evil? I tried the same but it doesn't work.
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Using evil and elscreen together
I just started using evil-mode after having used elscreen for a long time. evil-mode will bind the C-z key to evil-emacs-state but do you know how I can rebind either this function, or the elscreen ...
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Executing emacs shortcuts when keyboard is set to Greek
Writing Greek in emacs is proving to be quite inconvenient. If my keyboard is set to Greek, normal shortcuts do not work and I have to switch to latin just to navigate around the buffer.
As an ...
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How do I change only what “dd” does in evil-mode's normal-state in a minor mode
When I press dd in haskell-interactive-mode at the prompt, it doesn't delete anything, because part of the line is read-only. I would like to map dd to 'haskell-interactive-mode-kill-whole-line.
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How do I bind a key to open or close a mode? (undo-tree)
I'm using evil (via spacemacs) and I want to bind <f2> to open and close the undo-tree (like vim-Gundo). I can successfully bind opening undo-tree-visualize, but I can't figure out how to quit. ...
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Evil mode pasting under line
I'm trying to achieve the following with this:
$pricelist = pricelist();
$hotels[$index ]['id']
I want to copy the bottom line into the pricelist() function like this:
$pricelist = pricelist($...
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Re-creating .vimrc key mappings in Emacs
I've been using vim for a while (though I'm only a basic user) and I've been trying out Emacs (specifically spacemacs).
I have remapped H and L to go to the start / end of the line by adding the ...
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Evil: Is there a default register that does not get overwritten by later yanks to explicit registers?
I often use registers in evil, but I have a common use case that I cannot seem to resolve. I would like to have all copied text stored somewhere that does not get overwritten when I explicitly make ...
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Instructions on how to work with Evil Mode
I am considering in giving Evil Mode a chance. I have searched extensively to find how do you use it and everyone is just sharing their customizations.
What I can't understand is when you install and ...
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How to access os clipboard using Emacs + Evil
How can i yank to/from windows clipboard when using:
Windows 7 (x64)
GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x64)
Evil 1.0.9
and having (setq x-select-enable-clipboard nil) in my .emacs? (I put this line there because i ...
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Any idea how turn quotes into double quotes?
One of the things that I love in Vim, was the faster way of insert double quotes (saves me hitting the shift key"
inoremap '' ""<Left>
So when I press the single quote, and type further, I ...
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How do I set up key bindings for modes in a specific Evil state?
I have a set of key bindings that I use for both web-mode and php-mode in insert mode (of Evil). So I cannot use set-local-map or something. Because in normal mode, the same keys will then call other ...
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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 can I disable “q” in normal state in evil for some modes?
I'm using Spacemacs. I noticed that in help-mode, q quits, which is exactly what I want. However, in certain other modes, customize-mode, for example, q is bound to evil-record-macro. (I set it to ...
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Org Mode & Evil: Prevent editing of hidden text within collapsed subtree
I know that this can be avoided easily, in fact there is a previous question here that covered this matter before, but this only works if we are using Emacs without Evil or using Evil with the emacs-...
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How to set evil-mode to use evil-emacs-state-mode in new buffers?
So far, I've tried this, but it doesn't see to be working - new buffers still start in normal mode. I'd prefer to default to evils emacs mode, and be able to switch into evil with C-z when I'm ready
(...
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How can I add a new colon-command to Evil?
evil-mode introduces vim-style colon commands (such as :wq to save and close).
I have a few commands (such as kill-buffer, org-babel-tangle) that I'd like to be able to run through this instead of ...
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In terminal, C-) and ) both execute evil-forward-sentence. I want C-) to run paredit-forward-slurp-sexp
If I type C-f paredit-forward-slurp-sexp, Emacs tells me the command is mapped to C-). Yet through C-h k I realized that both C-) and ) run evil-forward-sentence. If I do C-f evil-forward-sentence, ...
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How to use evil in emacs 24.4?
This bug currently prevents me switching to 24.4:
https://bitbucket.org/lyro/evil/issue/437/m-x-is-undefined-in-emacs-244
Is there a workaround to make both evil and M-x work in 24.4?
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Disable evil-mode when git-timemachine mode is activated
How do I disable evil-mode in a buffer in which git-timemachine is activated?
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How to disable the map from esc to meta?
I installed the oh-my-emacs configuration and try to use emacs in the terminal.
oh-my-emacs configuration enables evil-mode in default, and my problem is that, I found esc is mapped to meta, while ...
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How to make evil keymaps inherit from other evil keymaps?
I changed the i key binding in evil-normal-state-map to go up and k to go down (these are just two examples). But evil-operator-state-map and evil-visual-state-map do not change accordingly, but keep ...
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How to treat underscore as part of the word?
I use Emacs + evil mode.
When I position the cursor on e (in normal state) in a chunk of text such as abc_def_ghi, ciw (change inner word) changes only the def part of the string, while Vim would ...
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Map a Key to an Evil Operator and to Other Things?
For example, in in lisp-mode, I want to be able to use d as normal but also remap something like "dh" to something like "sp-splice-sexp-killing-backward". In vim you can remap keys like this without a ...
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How to Persist Evil Markers?
I want to be able to save my buffer local evil markers (m to mark a location and then ' or ` to jump to it) across emacs sessions/instances. I'm not really sure how to do this. I tried installing/...
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Pasting in evil-mode when there's an active selection copies the selection
Currently when I select a bit of text replacing another bit of text (eg "viwp" to paste over the current word) it copies the thing I just replaced into kill ring. So if I try to paste over another bit ...
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zs and ze from Vim?
I use evil-mode, but it doesn't support zs and ze shortcuts from Vim (scrolling horizontally to cursor position).
How can i map these keys to achieve the same behavior in Emacs?
Some explanation of ...
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Advising evil-forward-char seems to trigger advice twice
I am trying to update annoying-arrows to work with evil-mode.
Annoying arrows is this minor-mode that complains when you use the same simple movement-command too many times in a row. (I have also ...
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Attempt at remapping evil only remaps some of the keys
I'm attempting to change the mapping of evil mode, and I have placed the code below in my .emacs file.
When I start emacs some of the keys have been remapped, while others have not
These keys got ...
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Evil cursor change by state
Until today, when I was in the normal state in evil, the cursor was a block, and it would switch to an I-beam when in insert state. Something changed, however, and the cursor is now always the I-beam....
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Visual selection highlighting invisible (with Evil and color-theme)
In Emacs color-theme libraries, which items control the visual selection foreground and background?
I'm in the process of giving Emacs a try after many years of Vim use. The vim emulator, Evil, is ...
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Installing evil-mode: ad-handle-definition 'evil-mode' got redefined
I just installed evil-mode from melpa and when the installation finishes I get the message ad-handle-definition: 'evil-mode' got redefined.
I can then enable evil-mode but get the same warning. But ...
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Evil-mode text objects not working in python.el's python-mode
This only happens in python-mode. When I try to use a text object to, for example, change everything inside or around some brackets (eg ci() it instead edits the first line of the file. So if I have ...
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evil mode - make helm quit with the escape key
I followed this guide to make escape quit from various modes...
;; esc quits
(defun minibuffer-keyboard-quit ()
"Abort recursive edit.
In Delete Selection mode, if the mark is active, just ...
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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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How to add a key-chord escape in Evil for input in other languages?
How do I get key-chords to work with evil and alternate input-methods?
I enabled Korean input by M-x set-input-method and chose korean-hangul, which I found from following the first few instructions ...
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How can I get undo behavior in Evil similar to Vim's?
The default undo behavior in Evil is too coarse-grained because it considers anything taking place between entering insert mode and leaving it as one edit operation. When you enter a whole paragraph ...
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“S” key throws error in Evil mode normal state [closed]
I really like typing in vim, but vimscript makes zero sense. Since I'm getting interested in Lisp/Clojure, and I've heard nice things about evil mode for emacs, I thought I'd give it a try.
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Is there an equivalent to sed-style substitution commands from vim?
One of the things I miss from vim is being able to type in a substitution command that will work over multiple lines, for example:
:/begin/,/end/s/foo/bar/g
The above command substitutes "foo" for "...
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Using evil-mode with a function that does not work well with evil-mode
The great org-mode has a fast way to jump between headings in an org file; M-x org-goto or C-c C-j. This doesn't work with evil mode that well.
If I am on evil normal mode in an org file, C-c C-j ...
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Evil: map keybindings the vim way?
I am trying to make the Evil function evil-jump-to-tag, C-] behave like the Emacs binding M-..
The normal behaviour is fine for browsing Tags files, but I want it to work also for Slime's slime-edit-...
