I see C-o (evil-execute-in-normal-state) will, from Insert state, execute the next command in Normal state. So while in insert mode `C-o v` will take me into visual mode and I can select text...so far so good. But when I try to yank that selected text with `y`, the text is not yanked and there's a literal y in the place where the pointer last was. Is there some way to have `y` actually yank the text here? I'm hoping to be able to use C-o in lieu of a leader key while in insert mode, so I don't have to do stuff like: (evil-leader/set-key "\\" '(lambda () (interactive) (self-insert-command 1)) "v" 'evil-visual-char "y" 'evil-yank "p" 'evil-paste-after) Which make input of the "\" character less convenient and prevents pasting that character from external clipboards. TIA for any suggestions, John -- John Magolske http://b79.net/contact