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Re: Key sequence completion with evil
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Tim Johnson |
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Re: Key sequence completion with evil |
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Tue, 28 Aug 2018 19:05:04 -0800 |
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* Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> [180828 15:05]:
> > Using evil and evil-leader with emacs 26.1 Gui on Ubuntu 16.04
> >
> > I'd welcome recommendations and/or comments regarding a package
> > to enable key sequence completion in evil normal and insert
> > states as well as evil emacs state.
> >
> > I know that there are many completion packages and that those
> > packages offer other features, but the primary feature I am
> > interested in is where interactive candidates are offered (as
> > opposed to non interactive textual candidates such as C-h would
> > provide.)
> >
> > Icicles? Ido? Ivy? ....
>
> No idea how well it interacts with Evil, but Icicles has
> key-sequence completion.
>
> You can see all keys available at the current time (including
> after one or more prefix keys). You can filter (narrow) the set of
> candidates any number of times, by matching against key names or
> command names. You can sort the candidates in a few ways. You can
> traverse the key-sequence hierarchy (e.g., go back up prefix
> keys). You can traverse menu-bar menus too.
>
> As with any Icicles completion, you can initiate this on demand or
> automatically (e.g. after a delay).
>
> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Icicles_-_Key_Completion
I've taken a cursory installation and inspection of icicles, then
of ivy and then of which-keys.
Icicles does not function in evil normal mode when key sequences
are initiated. But that is without any customization. (shift-TAB
is not recognized) When I invoke the icicles customization menu I
see numerous options with the text "UNINITIALIZED, you should not
see this."
This tells me that Drew has anticipated issues and has remedies in
mind.
On the other hand, 'which-key works as advertised and from a
cursory and initial experience is what I'm looking for in terms of
key sequence completion.
Ivy has not generated any opinions of mine thus far ...
Having said that, I recognize that icicles is a very rich
contribution which appears to have a wide variety of functionality.
Should Drew have the time to address the "UNINITIALIZED, you should
not see this." messages and possible subsequent issues I would
- given my time constraints - happy to see if we can get icicles
key sequence completion working in evil normal state. Key
sequence completion works like a charm and as advertized when I
toggle C-z but not when the "normal state" is in effect.
As always, I'm enthralled with what emacsen have contributed.
FYI: I'm on Alaska Daylight Time zone.
cheers.
--
Tim Johnson
http://www.tj49.com