January 2015 - implementations-list

visual selection and X primary behavior
by Linus Arver 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

Hello all, In regular Emacs (with Evil mode turned on, of course), I can (1) do visual selection of a region, and it will automatically copy that selection into the X primary selection buffer. This way, I can simply do SHIFT+INSERT in another X program (e.g., Firefox) and I will paste the selection that way. Conversely, I can (2) SHIFT+INSERT into Emacs/Evil (in Insert mode), and it will paste whatever is in the X primary buffer. However, behavior (1) does not work in terminal-mode Emacs (`emacs -nw`), although behavior (2) works as expected. I have tried to work around this by using my `"+y` macro which is enabled with (define-key evil-normal-state-map ",y" "\"+y") in my .emacs, but it fails with the message After 0 kbd macro iterations: X selection unavailable for this frame . Is this a bug in Evil or is it something in Emacs itself? -L

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About evil-ace-jump-char-mode
by Chao Lu 22 Jan '15

22 Jan '15

Dear list, I'm trying to use evil-ace-jump-char-mode by: (evil-leader/set-key "," 'evil-ace-jump-word-mode) ; ,, for Ace Jump (word) (evil-leader/set-key "l" 'evil-ace-jump-line-mode) ; ,l for Ace Jump (line) However, this seems not to be working with errors like: let: Wrong type argument: commandp, ace-jump-word-mode So I went into evil-integration.el and found indeed this is not a interactive function. ----- (*evil-define-motion evil-ace-jump-word-mode* (count) "Jump visually to the beginning of a word using ace-jump." :type exclusive :repeat abort (evil-without-repeat (evil-enclose-ace-jump-for-motion (call-interactively 'ace-jump-word-mode)))) ----- So I'm wondering how people is make use of ace-jump... Since there's configuration files like https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cofi/dotfiles/master/emacs.d/config/cofi-… having lines like: "SPC" 'evil-ace-jump-char-mode "S-SPC" 'evil-ace-jump-word-mode "C-SPC" 'evil-ace-jump-line-mode Which apparently treat those as interactive functions to make use of... I'm confused. So is there any comments/advice? Best, Chao

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yank-pop
by Chao Lu 21 Jan '15

21 Jan '15

Dear list, As a new user of evil, I love it a lot, but have some questions which I'm trying to tackle: First, I want the emacs intial yank-pop back by: (define-key evil-insert-state-map (kbd "M-y") 'yank-pop) (define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "M-y") 'yank-pop) (define-key evil-emacs-state-map (kbd "M-y") 'yank-pop) however, evil keeps beeping at me: user-error: *Previous command was not an evil-paste.* Secondly, How to make evil behave like emacs when call end-of-line. i.e. if we have a line like below: *blabla$* when call end-of-line the cursor goes to *$*, instead of* the char before $* . Thanks, Chao

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Programmatically call evil-find-char
by Sylvain Benner 20 Jan '15

20 Jan '15

Hi, I'm trying to call interactively from the code the function `evil-find-char` while in visual state like this: (call-interactively 'evil-find-char) A simplistic use case will be the following simple wrapper function mapped on `f` key: (defun my-wrapper () (interactive) (call-interactively 'evil-find-char)) The observed behavior is that when I press on `f` the point is put of the next character with no selection, then when I press a second key then the selection does not include the second character (like if I pressed `t` in regular Vim). For the complete story, I'm replacing the map of `evil-find-char` on `f` in order to be able to `escape` to normal state by quickly pressing `fd`. This is currently implemented in package `evil-escape` with key-chord which I want to drop because of several edge cases with Evil. This `fd` as `ESC` is mainly used in spacemacs which is an Evil focused Emacs kit. Cheers, -syl20bnr-

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cannot bind evil-next-visual-line for selection mode
by Alan Schmitt 19 Jan '15

19 Jan '15

Hello, I'm trying to configure evil to use `evil-next-visual-line' by default when I hit the 's' key. It works well in normal mode, but I cannot get it to work in visual mode. This is what I have in my configuration: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (define-key evil-motion-state-map "s" 'evil-next-visual-line) (define-key evil-normal-state-map "s" 'evil-next-visual-line) #+end_src To reproduce, take a file with a long line, enter visual-line-mode, go into visual mode and hit 's': the selection extends to the next line instead of the next visual line. I tried adding #+begin_src emacs-lisp (define-key evil-visual-state-map "s" 'evil-next-visual-line) #+end_src but it still does not work. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks, Alan -- OpenPGP Key ID : 040D0A3B4ED2E5C7

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Bind plus and minus signs to operators
by Alexander Shukaev 09 Jan '15

09 Jan '15

Hey guys, Unfortunately, it seems to be not possible. Originally '-' and '+' are bound to motions and that certainly works. However, if one tries to bind them to some operators, then `evil-extract-count' throws Key sequence contains no complete binding It's a bit difficult for me to understand the exact reason for that. Probably this has something to do with misinterpretation of prefix numeric arguments. Is it possible to fix that? If not, could you elaborate on why that would be not possible. Thanks and regards, Alexander

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