August 2011 - implementations-list - lists.ourproject.org

After a few evil days...
by Michael Markert 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

Hi, I'm very excited to get away from viper and you really did a nice job with evil. Thank you! I've got some points, though. * Motion commands don't play nice with chars not found in ASCII Test for example with "Pröblem" * Input-Method-Handling is missing In my case everythings fine except normal and visual state but they don't like my input method ("german-postfix"). I came up with this, I hope it helps someone until there's real support: * evil-states are no good default Currently I add about 20 modes to `evil-emacs-state-modes', most of them are third-party and not about editing but are specialized and add their own set of keybindings. I think it would make the life of users far easier and their config thinner to switch to emacs-state if the mode isn't in `evil-insert-state-modes' or `evil-motion-state-modes' (and maybe add a `evil-normal-state-modes'). * I'd like to help with developing evil is there a roadmap or feature list to work on? I found the issue tracker at bitbucket, but there are only real issues. Or is there a better point to start development? Michael

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Feature suggestion
by York Zhao 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

Hi, The makefile rule for "make emacs" is convenient, the only issue with it is that it deletes all the .elc files so one have to byte compile the whole project after testing which is inconvenient when it is certain that .elc files are up to date. Is it better to provide another rule that does the same thing as "make emacs" without deleting the .elc files? Thanks, York

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Evil commit 6841 doesn't work for mark-defun
by York Zhao 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

Hi Vegard, I just noticed that your commit 6841 works perfectly for marking paragraph but not for `mark-defun'. York

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evil-toggle-key, take two
by Michael Markert 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

Hi, while adjusting my config to use evil-toggle-key I noticed that I have to set it before loading evil - of course d'oh - or use custom. Because the code in the custom is rather longish and it would be nice to set it without custom I think of adding a `evil-set-toggle-key' fun. But where should it go? - Into vars because, well, it's for setting the var - Into maps because it's for the mapping - Into states because it's related to the states - create a new file for user adjustments and convenience and what not. In the mean-time I'll go with the last option for my topic branch. Michael

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Bundling of other libraries (i.e. undotree and goto-chg)
by Michael Markert 08 Aug '11

08 Aug '11

Hi, I've found myself another bloody toe. The libraries undo-tree and goto-chg are distributed with evil. While they are great and really add value to evil, it's also a mess: The undo-tree release is older than the official (0.3.0 vs. 0.3.1). If it's just convenience to provide them, then please replace those with a note or warning when the libraries are not found. Just my 2 cents, Michael

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Patch: Add `evil-toggle-key'
by Michael Markert 08 Aug '11

08 Aug '11

Hi List, I don't switch between evil states and emacs states quite often and so use C-z for a more used command.[1] In viper there was `viper-toggle-key', appended is a patch to add `evil-toggle-key' and adjust the keys to it. Michael Footnotes: [1] Yes I can redefine them myself, but that results in 4 quite ugly lines.

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Added `c-beginning-of-defun' etc. to `evil-motions'
by York Zhao 05 Aug '11

05 Aug '11

Hi Vegard, Please find attached my patch file for this. Thanks, York

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How to "unbind" "j" in dired
by York Zhao 05 Aug '11

05 Aug '11

Hi, I don't like rebinding "j" in dired mode because the original binding was pretty useful that you can type any part of a file name (doesn't have to from the beginning) to locate the file. Is it better to make this keybinding customizable? Thanks, York

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Cursor color in "Emacs state" not persistent
by York Zhao 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

Hi, I found that being able to set cursor color in different state is really useful, so I have the following to set my cursor color in emacs state: (setq evil-emacs-state-cursor '("red" box)) and it works, however, after I pressed "C-h k <key>" in emacs state the cursor color went back to black. Thanks, York

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Problem with selecting paragraph using "M-h" in Evil
by York Zhao 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

Hi, In emacs state when I press "M-h" I will have the current paragraph selected, pressing "M-h" again I will have the next paragraph selected and if I keep pressing "M-h" I will be selecting as many paragraph as I need easily which is pretty handy. However, if I'm in Normal state, I could only select the first paragraph, pressing "M-h" again will cancel the current selection instead of selecting the next paragraph. Vimpulse doesn't have this issue. Thanks, York

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