Hongxu Chen <[email protected]> writes:

I am writing some c code with Emacs evil-mode and I find that now and then I need to lookup the man pages. It is easy enough when in Evil normal state, by pressing `K', which invokes `evil-lookup'. However the funcall is specified by `evil-lookup-func', so eventually the function called is Emacs function `woman' rather than `man'. The problem is that woman sucks for some formats of manpages, for instance, the table in the manpage of `man', and she also displays margin between words poorly. So I hope to set `evil-lookup-func' to `man'. But I CANNOT since the definition in man.el(.gz) tells me that `man' takes ONE argument. So I re-bind `K' for myself:

(evil-global-set-key 'normal (kbd "K") 'man)

The binding is in motion state map, not normal state map (the latter inherits the former), so try 'motion instead of 'normal. However, I'm not sure if `evil-lookup-func` is vastly useful. Probably it's better to remove this variable completely and let the user rebind "K" if (s)he prefers a different command. This should not be much more difficult. Best regards, Frank