For some modes I find it more convenient to be in Emacs state and add some key Evil mappings as needed, like so: ;; start the Package Menu in Emacs mode, add some Evil mappings (evil-set-initial-state 'package-menu-mode 'emacs) (evil-add-hjkl-bindings package-menu-mode-map 'emacs (kbd "/") 'evil-search-forward (kbd "n") 'evil-search-next (kbd "N") 'evil-search-previous) This works quite nicely, except for one thing, I'm not finding a way to Navigate up & down in the search history initiated by / ('evil-search-forward). I have in my init file this: (setq evil-search-module 'evil-search) Which allows such navigation through search history -- but only when in Evil vi states, not when evil-set-initial-state is set to 'emacs. Any suggestions re how to achieve this in Emacs state? Thanks, John -- John Magolske http://b79.net/contact