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

[Gordon Gustafson]

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
>