Settings

Evil’s behaviour can be adjusted by setting some variables. The list of all available variables and their current values can be inspected by doing:

M-x customize-group RET evil RET

To change the value of a variable, you can use this interface, or add a setq form to your Emacs init file, preferably before Evil is loaded. ^[1]

(setq evil-shift-width 0)
;; Load Evil
(require 'evil)

What follows is a non-exhaustive list of the most relevant customization options.

• The initial state
• Keybindings and other behaviour
• Search
• Indentation
• Cursor movement
• Cursor display
• Window management
• Parenthesis highlighting
• Miscellaneous

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1. (1) Strictly speaking, the order only matters if the variable affects the way Evil is loaded. This is the case with some variables. ↩︎