cannot bind evil-next-visual-line for selection mode

[Gordon Gustafson]

You could try to make do with C-v (visual block mode) g$ and gj/gk,
albeit with more keystrokes.

On 1/14/15, Frank Fischer <frank-fischer at shadow-soft.de> wrote:
> Am 13.01.2015 um 09:57 schrieb Alan Schmitt:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to configure evil to use `evil-next-visual-line' by default
>> when I hit the 's' key. It works well in normal mode, but I cannot get
>> it to work in visual mode.
>>
>> This is what I have in my configuration:
>>
>> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>> (define-key evil-motion-state-map "s" 'evil-next-visual-line)
>> (define-key evil-normal-state-map "s" 'evil-next-visual-line)
>> #+end_src
>>
>> To reproduce, take a file with a long line, enter visual-line-mode, go
>> into visual mode and hit 's': the selection extends to the next line
>> instead of the next visual line.
>
> The selection has nothing to do with the motion. The cursor will move to
> the next visual line, but visual line mode *always* works on real lines,
> not visual lines. That's why the selection always extends to real lines.
> Dealing with selection of visual lines is not easy and there are many
> things to consider, and nobody has ever implemented this stuff, sorry.
>
> Frank
>
>
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