spacemacs-evil layer
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1. Description
This layer adds various adjustments to packages to create an evilified experience throughout the entirety of Spacemacs.
1.1. Features:
- Add evil tutorial with
evil-tutor
- Add escaping under
fd
by default withevil-escape
- Add occurrences count in mode-line when searching a buffer
- Add support for lisp structure manipulation with
evil-lisp-state
- Add safe structural editing of lisp dialects with
evil-cleverparens
- Add
evil-exchange
to swap text - Add easy live editing of multiple occurrences with
evil-iedit-state
- Add new vim text objects for indentation with
evil-indent-plus
- Add operations to align text with
evil-lion
- Easy management of comments with
evil-nerd-commenter
- Navigation between pairs with
evil-matchit
- Advanced navigation on brackets with
evil-unimpaired
- Easy increment and decrement of numbers with
evil-number
- Support for additional vim movements via
evil-args
- Support for surrounding the marked area with a given character via
evil-surround
- Evilification of various modes if the editing style is
vim
orhybrid
- Improves the comment function to be able to also do the inverse operation
- Persistent highlight of searched text with
evil-search-highlight-persist
- Display tildes in non-buffer area with
vi-tilde-fringe
- Add
evil-collection
2. Install
The spacemacs-evil
layer is included by default in the Spacemacs distribution.
3. Note about evil-collection
evil-collection is a collection of Evil bindings for the parts of Emacs that Evil does not cover properly by default, such as help-mode, M-x calendar, Eshell and more.
However, there is a large overlap of features provided by both Spacemacs
and
evil-collection
. For the same feature, Spacemacs
implementation is often better
than evil-collection
.
That's said, when evil-collection
is used carefully we can reduce the amount of
effort wasted on reinventing the wheel
on Spacemacs
side.
Spacemacs provides a layer variable spacemacs-evil-collection-allowed-list
for
users and layer hackers to enable evil-collection on their desired modes.
For users, if you want to enable evil-collection on eglot
, then you will need
to declare this layer with it variable explicitly:
(spacemacs-evil :variables spacemacs-evil-collection-allowed-list '(eglot))
For Spacemacs hackers check out git layer to see how we apply evil-collection
to
magit.