doomemacs/modules/feature/evil

• :feature evil
  • Removing evil-mode
  • Differences from vanilla evil
    • Overview
    • Multiple-cursors
    • A saner code-folding system
    • Hacks
  • Differences from vim

:feature evil

This holy module brings vim to Emacs.

Removing evil-mode

Some users want vanilla Emacs back. To do so remove :feature evil from init.el. Evil-specific configuration and keybindings (defined with map!) will be ignored without evil present (and removed when byte-compiling).

Differences from vanilla evil

Overview

• A better :g[lobal] command with match highlighting
• :al[ign]: an ex interface to align-regexp with match highlighting
• Support for more of vim's filename modifiers in ex commands (like :p, :p:h or :t) than vanilla evil-mode offers.

• A list of new text objects:

  • Blocks: B (from evil-textobj-anyblock)
  • Args: a (from evil-args)
  • Indentation: i / I / J (from evil-indent-plus)

• Ported vim plugins:

  • vim-commentary => evil-commentary
  • vim-easymotion => evil-easymotion
  • vim-multiedit => evil-multiedit
  • vim-multiple-cursors => evil-mc & evil-multiedit
  • vim-seek or vim-sneak => evil-snipe
  • vim-surround => evil-embrace & evil-surround
• NERDTree equivalent is available in :tools neotree

Multiple-cursors

Two multiple-cursor implementations exist in this module: evil-mc and evil-multiedit. Together, these provide the functionality of vim-multiple-cursors.

The former lets you place "clone" cursors. The latter lets you interactively edit many regions from one place (like an interactive version of :%s).

A saner code-folding system

This module combines evil-vimish-fold (allows arbitrary folds) and hideshow (folds based on markers and indent) to create a more consistent code-folding system. All the vim folding keys should work (zr, zm, za, zo, etc).

Hacks

• Automatically moves to new window when splitting
• If in visual mode, * and # will search for the current selection instead of the word-at-point.

Differences from vim

• Column-wise ranges in ex commands are enabled by default. i.e. the range in :'<,'>s/a/b will only affects the visual selection, not full lines (see evil-ex-visual-char-range).
• :g will highlight buffer matches incrementally.