dw and db not working quite right; search bug; visual selection options

Sun Dec 25 15:31:48 CET 2011

On 2011-12-22 22:33 +0100, Leo Alekseyev wrote:

> Second, there appears to be a bug with evil-search-forward and C-g.
> In the help, it says "C-g when search is successful aborts and moves
> point to starting point."  (This is in fact standard emacs behavior.)
> This doesn't work for me; point stays at the first match, and to get
> back to the starting point I need to hit C-o.

Fixed in commit 6302c05.

> Finally, is there a setting equivalent to Vim's
> :set selection=exclusive?

There is (setq evil-visual-char 'exclusive), which changes the
behavior of characterwise selections. Block selections remain
"inclusive", though. I might add a customization variable for
changing both at once.

-- 
Vegard