Trying to write elisp code to select inner WORD as achieved by viW normal mode keystrokes

27 Jan 2016

      Hi,

I am a happy user of evil-visualstar
(https://github.com/bling/evil-visualstar/blob/master/evil-visualstar.el)

I frequently use this key sequence: 'viW*' (without the quotes)

I'd like to write a short function that achieves this so that I can map it
to a single key in evil-normal-state-map, something like

  (defun guivho-viW-star()
    "Visual select inner WORD and search for it"
    (interactive)
   ;(select-inner-WORD-function-as-would-be-achieved-by-viW)
   (evil-visualstar/begin-search-forward))

I've looked up what is called by 'v', and it claims to be defined in
evil-states-el, but I don't find it there. It claims to be defined as

(evil-visual-char &optional MARK POINT TYPE MESSAGE)

but I don/t know how to express the 'iW' part in that signature.

Please advise,

TIA,

Guido

Trying to write elisp code to select inner WORD as achieved by viW normal mode keystrokes

Guido Van Hoecke