Howto Configure Evil

[Timothy Washington]

Nice. Thanks for all the tips. Especially the thinking behind evil.


Tim


On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Frank Fischer <
frank.fischer at mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 02:07:47PM -0500, Timothy Washington wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I'm trying to figure out how to get these configurations done with evil.
> I
> > can't see how to do that with the documentation
> > here<http://gitorious.org/evil/pages/Home>.
>
> Yeah, the documentation is quite sparse, but writing a good one takes time
> ...
>
> > I'm trying to get these basic behaviours:
> >
> >    - directional delete:   d [up key]
>
> dk should work, see the discussion of issue #46 at [1]
>
> >    - line numbers
> >    - setting softtabstop:   set sts=2
>
> Evil is not a full emulation of Vim in Emacs (and will never be). This
> means that especially (almost) everything that has to do with
> configuration will *not* be emulated by Evil. The reason is that the
> purpose of Evil is to combine the best of both world, Vim and Emacs.
> And this means Evil does not shadow (besides keybindings) or replace
> Emacs' own functions, configuration options, and so on.
>
> >    - remap:   :   to   ;     (I want to avoid pressing shift to invoke a
> >    vim command)
> >    - remap:   %   to   [tab]      (I want to avoid pressing shift when
> >    jumping between scopes)
>
> All evil bindings are ordinary Emacs keymaps, so there is no "remap"
> command. You should use Emacs function to change keybindings, e.g.,
>
> (define-key evil-motion-state-map ";" 'evil-ex-read-command)
>
> or
>
> (define-key evil-motion-state-map (kbd "TAB") "%")
>
> should do what you want (untested, by I hope you got the idea. Have a
> look at "evil-maps.el" for all default keybindings)
>
> Frank
>
> [1]
> https://bitbucket.org/lyro/evil/issue/46/d-d-behaves-different-from-dk-dj
>
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