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How to treat underscore as part of the word?
The following snippet will make Evil treat an Emacs symbol as a word.
(with-eval-after-load 'evil
(defalias #'forward-evil-word #'forward-evil-symbol)
;; make evil-search-word look for symbol ...
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Differences between evil-normal-state-map and evil-motion-state-map
Motion state is an Evil-specific thing, intended for modes where you don't edit text, but still want Vim-style movement available, with all other keys of that mode passing through. Help buffers are ...
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DOOM Emacs: Error running hook "global-git-commit-mode" because: (void-variable transient-base-map)
It seems that some magit dependencies break with Emacs 28, as the function defvar-keymap is only added in Emacs 29. The solution is to pin an older version of the packages, as Doom currently does not ...
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How to treat underscore as part of the word?
The spacemacs FAQ offers the following language-specific solution:
;; For python
(add-hook 'python-mode-hook #'(lambda () (modify-syntax-entry ?_ "w")))
;; For ruby
(add-hook 'ruby-mode-hook #'(...
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How to remap : to ; in Evil Mode
First of all, in Emacs one thinks in keymaps and commands, not so much keys in their (original) context. Your first step would be figuring out how the commands are named in Evil's normal and visual ...
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How do I turn off Spacemacs’s tildes on empty lines?
Toggle
You can toggle it off with (spacemacs/toggle-vi-tilde-fringe-off), you can get the list of all toggles in helm-spacemacs accessible via SPC f e h or SPC h SPC in more recent versions. Every ...
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Strange behaviour on evil-delete
I noticed the d key deleting a line on a single press as well. I am using Spacemacs [email protected] on the develop branch. I do not know if this is your case, but I had an incomplete search in progress.
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How to unhighlight after searching in evil mode?
You can achieve the same as entering :noh with the command evil-ex-nohighlight.
But since you are using spacemacs, it can be even simpler: hit SPC s c to clear highlights.
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Fold all methods in a Python class with Evil
It's not documented well enough, and possibly poorly named, but the hideshow function hs-hide-level will collapse all the blocks within the current block. That is, if your cursor is on the class ... ...
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How can I disable evil in help-mode?
The reason this fails is because help-mode is in evil-motion-state-modes by default, adding it to evil-emacs-state-modes will therefore not have the desired effect as Evil looks it up in evil-motion-...
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How to quit evil mode?
You should also be able to C-z to enter normal emacs mode, and then another C-z to go back to evil.
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Have Ctrl-a increase a number just like in vim
The package evil-numbers does exactly what you need.
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hybrid line number mode in emacs?
You can make the current line number show instead of "0" by customizing the linum-relative-current-symbol variable.
You can change that variable by one of multiple ways.
M-x customize-group RET ...
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Evil mode - How to go into Insert mode after Org-capture with %? cursor placement
Credits to awalker4 from reddit!
(add-hook 'org-capture-mode-hook 'evil-insert-state)
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In Evil mode, how can I prevent adding to the kill ring when I yank text, visual mode over other text, then paste over?
The suggestion in @gongqj's answer changes the behavior of paste so that cut text (via d) no longer gets pasted. This does not seem like what you want given your comment:
Ideally pasted over text ...
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How to check the current state in evil mode?
The state can be accessed via evil-state, eg:
(cond
((eq evil-state 'visual) (do-something))
((eq evil-state 'normal) (do-other-thing))
((eq evil-state 'insert) (do-another-thing)))
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How to do case sensitive searches using evil's evil-search?
What to do
You can customize the variable evil-ex-search-case to tell it
what you want evil to do when searching. Here's the docstring:
evil-ex-search-case is a variable defined in evil-vars.el.
...
Dan♦
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Is there a table of Evil keys for Dired?
Here are a few things you can try to see available keys:
? -- actually this is partly wrong because
SPC ? dired
F1 m (describe-mode)
SPC h SPC dired -- this lets you jump to the code for the layer ...
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Difference between `evil-search-forward` and `evil-ex-search-forward`
evil has two search implementations, one is its own, the other one is a wrapper around emacs isearch. evil-search-forward wraps isearch-forward, evil-ex-search-forward invokes the internal search.
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Have Ctrl-a increase a number just like in vim
I've stumbled upon the same issue of preference and as suggested before, evil-numbers is the package for that. But while trying to set it up, it was surprising that evil-numbers is already in ...
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How to disable evil-mode everywhere?
More explanations how to remove Evil are in .emacs.d/modules/editor/evil/README.org and to quote it:
You must do two things to remove Evil:
Remove :editor evil from ~/.doom.d/init.el,
Run doom ...
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Cursor moves one position left after exiting insert mode?
"Moving one space left after leaving insert" is the default behavior in Vim, which evil (on top of which spacemacs is built) emulates by default. If you don't like that behavior, you can set (setq ...
Dan♦
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Remove key-mapping from org-mode
Org-mode is built-in to Emacs 24.5.1, so there's no need to eval-after-load. with-eval-after-load is also preferred over eval-after-load.
Instead of trying to remap org-kill-line, why not just ...
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How to make <tab> work in org mode when combined with evil mode?
It's not 100% clear what you want the tab key to do
when you're in org-mode.
What you have done is to bind tab in evil's "global"
normal-state keymap. If you're in normal state in an org
buffer, tab ...
Dan♦
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Using evil in the minibuffer
PR #1059 implemented this. Turn it on like this:
(setq evil-want-minibuffer t)
Watch out not to become too evil! :D
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Evil-emacs: how to make search/replace (:s/) global by default?
There is a variable named: evil-ex-substitute-global
If you check it with C-h v, it will give you the explanation:
If non-nil substitute patterns a global by default. Hide Usually
(if this ...
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Evil mode and regular expressions
evil uses the Emacs regexp facilities under the hood. Unfortunately, Emacs does not appear to have a separate syntax
class for digits, and does not recognize the \d regexp class.
So, to match your ...
Dan♦
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how do I do case sensitive searches using evil/spacemacs?
Short and narrow answer
You need to set the variable case-fold-search to nil in order
to have case sensitive search. So: put this somewhere in your init file:
(setq case-fold-search nil)
See the ...
Dan♦
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Possible not to use undo-tree in evil mode?
The author of undo-tree.el, Toby Cubitt, is presently too busy to fix this particular bug. If he has time in the future, he may look into the issue further. The author has indicated that he has ...
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How can I use multiple cursors in evil/spacemacs
As of Nov 2018, the spacemacs develop branch has a multiple-cursors layer available which notes that:
Currently the only supported backend is evil-mc, but more backends will be available in the ...
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