Evil (Extensible Vi Layer for Emacs) is a vim emulator for emacs
Evil is a reasonably full-featured and extensible vim emulator for emacs. It may be considered the successor to both Vim Mode and Viper/Vimpulse
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How do I change the color of the evil-state face in powerline-evil?
I want to change the default colors in the powerline-evil-center-color-theme. I am specifically looking to change the the face colors of the evil-state face such that the background and foreground colors matches my Emacs color theme.
I have tried to…
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evil-mode error when try :reg
Please see the figure for the problem. What's is more interesting, is that I copied the two packages directly from git repository of spacemacs, inside which :reg works just well.
Appreciate it if there's any suggestion.
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how control the time span of highlighting searched word when press "*" under evil in emacs?
In evil mode, when press *, it will highlight the all the words the same under the cursor, but the highlight will disapper very soon. How can I control how long to keep the highlight? I am using prelude versiosn of emacs.
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Evil mode bindings for non-English languages
After years of Vim I discovered Emacs's evil mode and now I am utterly happy. And I'd like to use my native language in Emacs as well. I thought it should be fairly easy and someone probably have done that already and I've tried searching for…
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Getting ido to work with evil in emacs
I'm trying to get ido to work with evil ex commands (such as :vsp ... or :b ...), but it doesn't seem to be working automatically. Currently I have:
(require 'ido)
(setq ido-everywhere t)
(ido-mode t)
(use-package ido-ubiquitous
:ensure…
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Smex in Evil mode
I'm using Evil mode and would now like to use smex so that when I press ":" in evil mode I get smex. This is what I have now in my Emacs file:
(define-key key-translation-map (kbd ";") (kbd ":"))
(define-key key-translation-map (kbd ":") (kbd…
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Make gg=G work in Evil-Mode to indent whole buffer?
I'm trying to move from Vim to Emacs using Evil mode, but can't get gg=G to indent the whole buffer working.
gg correctly moves the cursor to the top of the buffer
G correctly moves the cursor to the bottom of the buffer
== correctly indents the…
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emacs Evil-mode cannot map "ii" to Esc
When in the Insert state, I would like the key combination "ii" to switch to the Normal state. I tried the method described here, but it does not work for "ii". It works for other combinations I have tried (i.e. "jj" and "jk") but not "ii".
Here is…
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Emacs Evil mode function to Quickly Sort snippets
Basically what I'm trying to accomplish is rapid manual sorting of lots of notes and snippets of text.
What I would like to it mark a set of registers, (basically headlines in org-mode) for example
1-Tasks 2-Inbox, 3-Reference, 4-Someday
Then I…
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Emacs Key Binding Precedence
I'm frustrated with the default behavior of autocomplete overriding key bindings used by yasnippets.
Is there a way to set a precedence so that tab will try to expand a snippet before trying to autocomplete the word?
Quick disclosure: I'm using…
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Emacs Evil Mode Insert Key is Lagging
I've recently switched from using vimpulse to evil and have noticed a very strange and annoying behavior.
I will be in command mode and hit the 'i' key, which should put me in insert mode.
However, what happens instead is that I stay in command mode…
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emacs highlight word under cursor
I am trying to create a function in my .emacs to bind to kbd "*" in evil mode to highlight the word under cursor in addition to normal search as in vim.
I modified the script from:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SearchAtPoint
This is what I…
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Can't use cscope correctly under emacs evil-mode
I have the same issue with the guy, the link is below:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.vim-emulation/1404
when I try to use xgtags/xcscope with evil I have the following question:
xgtags/xcscope would open a new window with all search results…
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bind emacs evil window commands to g prefix
I'm new to Emacs. I have Emacs 24.3.1 with evil mode installed. I'm trying to bind gw as a prefix to the various evil-window functions. For example, I would like gwl to focus the window to the right, and gwh the window to the left. Of course, this…
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