Exit from visual state breaks dot repeation

Thu Nov 10 22:57:09 CET 2011

Am Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:19:19 -0500
schrieb York Zhao <gtdplatform at gmail.com>:

> > 1. "i"
> > 2. Type something, e.g., type foo
> > 3. Esc
> > 4. Press . will repeat the insertion of "foo" which is good.
> > 5. "v" to enter visual state, then "Esc" to exit.
> > 6. Press "." and I expect "foo" to be inserted but nothing happened.
> 
> Here is my fix to this problem but I'm not sure whether it will break
> anything or not, especially because Frank has just done some work
> related to repeating and visual state stuff.
> 
> diff --git a/evil-core.el b/evil-core.el
> index 8884139..844cc78 100644
> --- a/evil-core.el
> +++ b/evil-core.el
> @@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ This is the state the buffer came up in."
>    (&optional buffer message)
>    "Change the state of BUFFER to its previous state."
>    :keep-visual t
> +  :repeat abort
>    (interactive)
>    (with-current-buffer (or buffer (current-buffer))
>      (evil-change-state (or evil-previous-state evil-default-state
> 'normal)

Thanks a lot, this seems to be a reasonable solution. I added it in
aac1f78.

Frank