Evil documentation

Evil 1.15.0, Jan 07, 2022

Eivind Fonn, Frank Fischer, Vegard Øye

Copyright © 2011-2019, Eivind Fonn, Frank Fischer, Vegard Øye

Table of Contents

• 1 Overview

  • 1.1 Installation via package.el
  • 1.2 Manual installation
  • 1.3 Modes and states

• 2 Settings

  • 2.1 The initial state
  • 2.2 Keybindings and other behaviour
  • 2.3 Search
  • 2.4 Indentation
  • 2.5 Cursor movement
  • 2.6 Cursor display
  • 2.7 Window management
  • 2.8 Parenthesis highlighting
  • 2.9 Miscellaneous

• 3 Keymaps

  • 3.1 evil-define-key
  • 3.2 Leader keys

• 4 Hooks

• 5 Extension

  • 5.1 Motions
  • 5.2 Operators
  • 5.3 Text objects
  • 5.4 Range types
  • 5.5 States

• 6 Frequently Asked Questions

  • 6.1 Problems with the escape key in the terminal
  • 6.2 Underscore is not a word character

• 7 Internals

  • 7.1 Command properties

• 8 The GNU Free Documentation License

• Emacs lisp functions and variables