September 2011 - implementations-list

Evil experiences
by Tom Short 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Hi everyone, I really like evil. (That's hard to write with a straight face.) I've tried viper/vimpulse before, but it never stuck. I'm curious how other folks set up or tweak their setup. See below for my setup. I tend to mostly use R/ESS and org-mode. One thing that helped me a lot is setting up a "super-ESC" key that switches to normal state. Sometimes I would get into a buffer that wouldn't start in any state known to evil, and so C-z and ESC didn't do what I wanted. For this "super-ESC", I used David Andersson's key-chord.el for simultaneous j & k key presses. For some modes, I didn't like the use of evil-make-overriding-map. I tried this with Org's agenda mode. The end results was too much of a mish-mash of keys. I ended up just assigning j and k in org-agenda-mode-map and left normal state as is. Once evil settles down, it'd be nice to have a place to share configurations. Here are my .emacs entries related to evil. Comments welcome. - Tom ;;;; ;;;; EVIL ;;;; (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/evil") (require 'evil) (evil-mode 1) ;; Miscellaneous (setq evil-emacs-state-cursor '("red" box)) ;; Movements (define-key evil-motion-state-map " " 'evil-scroll-down) (define-key evil-motion-state-map (kbd "S-SPC") 'evil-scroll-up) (define-key evil-motion-state-map "H" 'evil-first-non-blank) (define-key evil-motion-state-map "L" 'evil-end-of-line) ;; General command-type stuff (define-key evil-normal-state-map ",w" 'save-buffer) ; save (define-key evil-normal-state-map ",s" 'save-buffer) ; (I can't make up my mind on w vs. s) (define-key evil-normal-state-map ",d" 'kill-this-buffer) (define-key evil-normal-state-map ",a" 'my-anything) ; emacs anything (define-key evil-normal-state-map ",b" 'bs-show) ; buffer show (bs) (define-key evil-normal-state-map ",e" 'wn-explorer) ; launch an explorer directory (define-key evil-normal-state-map ",R" 'sunrise-cd) ; two-pane directory based on current dir (define-key evil-normal-state-map ",r" 'sunrise) ; two-pane directory (define-key evil-normal-state-map ",o" 'org-agenda) ; access org agenda buffer (define-key evil-normal-state-map ",f" 'ace-jump-mode) ;; Window movements (global-set-key "\C-w" 'evil-window-map) (defun my-window-vsplit-and-go () "Split the window vertically, go to the new window, and call buffer show." (interactive) (progn (split-window-vertically) (evil-window-down 1) (bs-show nil) )) (defun my-window-hsplit-and-go () "Split the window horizontally, go to the new window, and call buffer show." (interactive) (progn (split-window-horizontally) (evil-window-right 1) (bs-show nil) )) (define-key evil-window-map "s" 'my-window-vsplit-and-go) (define-key evil-window-map "v" 'my-window-hsplit-and-go) (defun my-window-maximize () "Maximize the current window. (This is the same as C-w _ then C-w |.)" (interactive) (progn (evil-window-set-height nil) (evil-window-set-width nil) )) (defun my-window-switch-and-maximize () ; nice for toggling between windows "Go to the previous window and maximize it. (This is the same as C-w C-w, C-w _ then C-w |.)" (interactive) (progn (evil-window-prev nil) (evil-window-set-height nil) (evil-window-set-width nil) )) (define-key evil-window-map "f" 'my-window-maximize) ; "full" (define-key evil-window-map "g" 'my-window-switch-and-maximize) ; "go" ;; R / ESS stuff ; I want the following to work in any mode, not just ess-mode (define-key evil-normal-state-map ",," 'ess-eval-paragraph) (define-key evil-normal-state-map ",g" 'ess-eval-paragraph-and-go) (define-key evil-visual-state-map ",," 'ess-eval-region) (define-key evil-visual-state-map ",g" 'ess-eval-region-and-go) (eval-after-load 'ess-help '(progn (add-hook 'ess-help-mode-hook 'evil-change-to-initial-state) )) ;; jump to the prompt and go to insert mode (evil-define-key 'normal inferior-ess-mode-map "i" 'my-R-insert) (evil-define-key 'normal inferior-ess-mode-map "I" 'my-R-insert) (evil-define-key 'normal inferior-ess-mode-map "A" 'my-R-insert) (defun my-R-insert () (interactive) (end-of-buffer) (comint-show-maximum-output) (evil-insert 0) ) (evil-define-key 'normal inferior-ess-mode-map (kbd "C-j") 'comint-next-matching-input-from-input) (evil-define-key 'normal inferior-ess-mode-map (kbd "C-k") 'comint-previous-matching-input-from-input) ;; Lisp (evil-define-key 'visual emacs-lisp-mode-map ",," 'eval-region) ;; Org mode ; most taken from here: ; http://zuttobenkyou.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/some-thoughts-on-emacs-and-vim/ (defun always-insert-item () (interactive) (if (not (org-in-item-p)) (insert "\n- ") (org-insert-item))) (evil-define-key 'normal org-mode-map "O" (lambda () (interactive) (end-of-line) (org-insert-heading t) (evil-append nil) )) (evil-define-key 'normal org-mode-map "o" (lambda () (interactive) (end-of-line) (always-insert-item) (evil-append nil) )) (evil-define-key 'normal org-mode-map "t" 'org-todo) ; mark a TODO item as DONE (evil-define-key 'normal org-mode-map "-" 'org-cycle-list-bullet) ; change bullet style ;; (evil-define-key 'normal org-mode-map "L" 'org-shiftright) ;; (evil-define-key 'normal org-mode-map "H" 'org-shiftleft) ;; (evil-define-key 'normal org-mode-map "K" 'org-shiftup) ;; (evil-define-key 'normal org-mode-map "J" 'org-shiftdown) (evil-define-key 'normal org-mode-map (kbd "M-l") 'org-metaright) (evil-define-key 'normal org-mode-map (kbd "M-h") 'org-metaleft) (evil-define-key 'normal org-mode-map (kbd "M-k") 'org-metaup) (evil-define-key 'normal org-mode-map (kbd "M-j") 'org-metadown) (evil-define-key 'normal org-mode-map (kbd "M-L") 'org-shiftmetaright) (evil-define-key 'normal org-mode-map (kbd "M-H") 'org-shiftmetaleft) (evil-define-key 'normal org-mode-map (kbd "M-K") 'org-shiftmetaup) (evil-define-key 'normal org-mode-map (kbd "M-J") 'org-shiftmetadown) ;;; org agenda -- leave in emacs mode but add j & k (define-key org-agenda-mode-map "j" 'evil-next-line) (define-key org-agenda-mode-map "k" 'evil-previous-line) ;;; BS-menu (eval-after-load 'bs '(progn ;; use the standard bs bindings as a base (evil-make-overriding-map bs-mode-map 'normal t) (evil-define-key 'motion bs-mode-map "h" 'evil-backward-char) (evil-define-key 'motion bs-mode-map "j" 'bs-down) (evil-define-key 'motion bs-mode-map "k" 'bs-up) (evil-define-key 'motion bs-mode-map "l" 'evil-forward-char) )) ;;; key chords for simultaneous key presses for common commands (require 'key-chord) ; for mapping simultaneous key presses ;; http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/key-chord.el (key-chord-mode 1) (key-chord-define-global "jk" 'evil-normal-state) ; super ESC (key-chord-define-global "JK" 'evil-emacs-state) (key-chord-define-global "df" 'evil-window-map) (key-chord-define evil-window-map "df" 'evil-window-prev) ; df twice (DOESN'T WORK)

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*Shell Command Output* doesn’t come up in Evil mode
by Nikolai Weibull 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Hi! It seems *Shell Command Output* doesn’t come up in Evil mode. Is this a bug? If I understand correctly, buffers in Fundamental mode should be in Evil mode.

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Removing automatically inserted indent when exiting insert mode
by Nikolai Weibull 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Hi! A suggested improvement is to remove automatically inserted indent when exiting insert mode. I guess the condition is that if the last command was evil-ret when exiting insert mode, any indent automatically inserted should be removed. This is what Vim does. It seems like it could be as easy as (add-hook 'evil-insert-state-exit-hook 'evil-delete-autoindent-on-insert-state-exit) (defun evil-delete-autoindent-on-insert-state-exit () (if (eq last-command 'evil-ret) (delete-horizontal-space)))) without the horrible name. What do you think?

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Switching s and l
by Nikolai Weibull 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

Hi! I use a DVORAK layout and switch s and l. I can’t get it working in Evil, however, as s is in evil-normal-state-map and l is in evil-motion-state-map. How do I perform the switch?

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How to send merge request on Gitorious?
by York Zhao 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

Hi, I've found gitorious so hard to use. Last time I had figured out how to send merge request and had done so. After a few works when I wanted to do this again I forgot how to do it and I had spent some of my valuable time on the website but still couldn't find where to do this. Can somebody give me a quick reminder as to where this functionality is? Thanks, York

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eval in evil: move the cursor past last char
by Lorenz Köhl 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Hello, evil is awesome. As I was customizing to make my vim and emacs habits non-exclusive I realized that C-x C-e (eval-last-sexp) works on the next to last sexp and I couldn't move over the last paren as it's usually the last character. How do you eval in evil? And virtualedit=onemore in vim does just that but I didn't find a reference to this in evil. Lorenz

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emacs 24 and moving left in visual mode
by Anton Daitche 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

Hi, I have discovered the following problem when using evil with emacs 24 (actually it is the snapshot from 2011/05/31 obtained from http://emacs.naquadah.org/) When in visual mode and trying to move left with the left-arrow-key nothing happens. It only concerns the left-arrow-key, e.g the "h"-key works. And even more strange: when i first move with the "h"-key and then try the left-arrow-key it works. Can anybody reproduce this kind of behavior? With best regards Anton

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C-h in window-map
by Michael Markert 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

Hi, currently C-h is mapped in `evil-window-map` (thus C-w C-h) while this is great in terms of vim compatibility it's bad for Emacs integration. Because prefixkey C-h describes the keymap I think it's far more valuable to drop the vim compatibility here (esp. since C-w h does the same). What's your take? Michael

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More emacs modes
by Michael Markert 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

Hi, the last commits in Magit changed some major-modes, so these have to be in `evil-emacs-state-modes' as well: - magit-status-mode - magit-commit-mode - magit-log-mode and two new modes: - calc-mode - Electric-buffer-menu-mode (M-x electric-buffer-list) Michael

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Dot repeat stops working after pressing "ESC"
by York Zhao 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. "i" 2. Type something. 3. "ESC" 4. ".", this works 5. Hit "ESC" 6. "." - Nothing happens. York

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