Modes in which direct editing of text isn&#39;t sensical generally initialize in motion or emacs state.  This means that the evil-normal-state-map is inactive.  But there are some useful Evil commands in evil-normal-state-map that don&#39;t involve editing text, such as:<br>
  evil-record-macro<br>  what-cursor-position<br>  find-file-at-point<br>  evil-quit<br>and several others.<br><br>These are unavailable in for example Buffer Menu, even though they would make sense there.<br><br>What&#39;s the reason behind putting non editing commands in evil-normal-state-map?<br>
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