rebinding C-w

Thu May 31 02:20:18 CEST 2012

Yes, you are right. Changing it to evil-motion-state-map fixes it. Thanks.

Is there any reason to bind C-w to evil-delete versus delete-region?

Bob

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Barry OReilly <gundaetiapo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Select the region and then do C-h k C-w
>
> If you're entering the visual state, you should probably put your key
> binding in the evil-motion-state-map instead.
>
>
>
> On 5/30/12, Bob Nnamtrop <bobnnamtrop at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It says its bound to kill-region, but when I select a region and try
>> to use it a C-w is echoed to the mini-buffer and emacs waits.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Barry OReilly <gundaetiapo at gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:22 AM
>> Subject: Re: rebinding C-w
>> To: vi/Vim emulation in Emacs <implementations-list at lists.ourproject.org>
>>
>>
>> What does it show when you do: C-h k C-w
>>
>> I've found I generally need to look at what's in the
>> evil-motion-state-map and evil-normal-state-map and make them
>> consistent.  See evil-maps.el for the stock key bindings.  As
>> described in evil-core.el: "Normal state inherits bindings from Motion
>> state".  Thus, you might need to: (define-key evil-motion-state-map
>> "\C-w" nil)
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5/30/12, Bob Nnamtrop <bobnnamtrop at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am used to the emacs windowing commands so I'd like to rebind C-w in
>>> normal state to the usual emacs binding (kill-region) or the evil
>>> "equivalent" (evil-delete). Is there a better choice here? However,
>>> the usual way does not work:
>>>
>>> (define-key evil-normal-state-map "\C-w" 'kill-region)
>>>
>>> It doesn't matter if it is before or after (require 'evil). What am I
>>> doing wrong?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bob
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