Trying to write elisp code to select inner WORD as achieved by viW normal mode keystrokes

Mon Feb 1 18:44:02 CET 2016

Hi Gordon and Frank,

Thanks for the suggestion, it does indeed work :)

Silly me, I never realized that a key could be set to some other keystrokes
rather than an elisp form...

Guido

On 31 January 2016 at 17:56, Gordon Gustafson <gordon3.14 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does this work?
>
>     (define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "`") "viW*")
>
> Change the backtick to the key you want to bind to, of course.
>
> On 1/27/16, Guido Van Hoecke <guivho at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am a happy user of evil-visualstar
> > (https://github.com/bling/evil-visualstar/blob/master/evil-visualstar.el
> )
> >
> > I frequently use this key sequence: 'viW*' (without the quotes)
> >
> > I'd like to write a short function that achieves this so that I can map
> it
> > to a single key in evil-normal-state-map, something like
> >
> >   (defun guivho-viW-star()
> >     "Visual select inner WORD and search for it"
> >     (interactive)
> >    ;(select-inner-WORD-function-as-would-be-achieved-by-viW)
> >    (evil-visualstar/begin-search-forward))
> >
> > I've looked up what is called by 'v', and it claims to be defined in
> > evil-states-el, but I don't find it there. It claims to be defined as
> >
> > (evil-visual-char &optional MARK POINT TYPE MESSAGE)
> >
> > but I don/t know how to express the 'iW' part in that signature.
> >
> > Please advise,
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Guido
> >
>
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