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Is the Keychord library compatible with Emacs evil?
It is inspired by @phils answer above and based on Simon’s Coding Blog: Emacs and Unity Every Day. I don’t know whether it works with Evil, but for Emacs in general the KeyChord library is designed for this sort of thing.
What’s the best way to use evil mode?
I use evil-leader and use “,xm” to replace “M-x”, so I seldom press Alt key. There is also general.el which supports multiple leader keys. evil-matchit, press “%” to jump between tag pair. avoid using ESC key, you can press “kj” instead. Have faith in free software!
How to insert into evil mode in Emacs?
Also, if you are coming from vim and want a quick path from insert to normal mode using “jk” (or any other 2 stroke combination), the best way is to copy the text from http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/key-chord.el and paste it into your ~/.emacs.d/key-chord.el . Then add the following to your .emacs:
How to set evil move cursor back in vimrc?
I use (setq evil-move-cursor-back nil) which isn’t very vimmy (although apparantly you can make your vimrc do that as well), I just never got used to the cursor moving back after exiting insert. Practical tip: use evil-local-mode-hook for stuff like lazy loading evil-surround-mode, it won’t help to put it in plain evil-mode-hook.
How to create a customizable Evil Escape key sequence?
If your key sequence is composed with the two same characters it is recommended to set the delay to 0.2. The key sequence can be entered in any order by setting the variable evil-escape-unordered-key-sequence to non nil. A major mode can be excluded by adding it to the list evil-escape-excluded-major-modes.
Can you type JJ in Emacs Evil Mode?
I’m used to typing “jj” to return normal mode from insert mode like many Vimers do but don’t know how to make it in Evil mode. This works for me. It requires the KeyChord library: It is inspired by @phils answer above and based on Simon’s Coding Blog: Emacs and Unity Every Day.
How to exclude a mode in Evil Escape?
A major mode can be excluded by adding it to the list evil-escape-excluded-major-modes. An inclusive list of major modes can defined with the variable evil-escape-enable-only-for-major-modes. When this list is non-nil then evil-escape is enabled only for the major-modes in the list.