Why does this not work the first time it's called?

[Guido Van Hoecke]

Hi Frank,

It works!

It took a 'make all' followed by a cold restart of Emacs.

Now it works from the first run.

Thanks for your help, and for evil!

Guido

On 28 January 2013 08:53, Guido Van Hoecke <guivho at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
> On 27 January 2013 19:46, Frank Fischer <frank-fischer at shadow-soft.de> wrote:
>> On 2013-01-27, Guido Van Hoecke <guivho at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I have a file that I want to visit, go to the second character of the
>>> fourth word, and enter replace mode:
>>>
>>> (defun guivho-test(name-of-file)
>>>   "Visit file, goto fourth word, second char and enter replace mode"
>>>   (interactive "fName of file: ")
>>>   (find-file name-of-file)
>>>   (beginning-of-line)
>>>   (evil-forward-WORD-begin 3)
>>>   (evil-forward-char)
>>>   (evil-replace-state))
>>>
>>> Test-file contents:
>>>
>>> line1 word1 word2 word3
>>> line2 word1 word2 word3
>>> line3 word1 word2 word3
>>> line4 word1 word2 word3
>>>
>>> I do not understand why the last the evil-forward-char and the
>>> evil-replace-state do not work when the file is not yet loaded, but do
>>> work if the guivho-test is executed from the buffer that already has the
>>> file. The first run leaves the cursor on the begin of the fourth word,
>>> ans it remains in normal mode; executing it again does advance the extra
>>> character and switches to replace mode.
>>
>> I can't reproduce that, in all my tests everything works
>> as expected. Which evil version and Emacs version do you use? What
>
>
> $ emacs-version
> GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36)
>  of 2012-08-27 on bob.porkrind.org
>
> $ evil-version
> Evil version 0.1
>
>> happens if you test with "make emacs" from evil's source?
>
> I just pulled in the current source and the behaviour is not changed:
> works the second time (from the file's buffer), not the first time
>
> Let me use this opportunity to praise evil. This is a terrific
> implementation of the vim paradigm and truly unites the best of the two
> best editors in the world. I particularly admire the seamless
> integration, it is indeed way better than any previous vi emulations
> I've been through before.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
>
> Guido
>
> (P.S. Sorry about the org-version mixup in my previous reply)
>
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