Hello John,
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)
Interesting, for Emacs state bindings I'd have modified the underlying keymap directly like so: (with-eval-after-load 'package (define-key package-menu-mode-map (kbd "/") 'evil-search-forward) ...)
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?
Could you please elaborate on the exact workflow? This sounds to me as if you want to initiate a search with `evil-search-forward`, then switch out the currently entered search term (which can be done with `M-p` and `M-n` already) and continue your session. These keys are bound to `isearch-ring-retreat` and `isearch-ring-advance`. But perhaps I'm misunderstanding you and you're envisioning a different workflow, like one not requiring to be in a search session for changing the search item. Cheers Vasilij Schneidermann