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Is this designed to work together with Evil mode? The keybindings look to be Vim based.
by ampdepolymerase 5y ago
Is this designed to work together with Evil mode? The keybindings look to be Vim based.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- countvajhula 5y agoThe introductory paragraph in the "Editing" section of the post explains the relationship to evil. Reproduced here for convenience: "Symex’s editing style is essentially Vim-like. While Vim’s Normal mode can be considered a Domain Specific Language for text editing in general, it has the following drawbacks when it comes to editing symexes: (1) it doesn’t have an appropriate noun to refer to symexes (e.g. it only has “words,” “lines,” “paragraphs,” etc.), and (2) the nouns it has are for the most part irrelevant when editing symexes. Thus, it isn’t exactly the right language to use. Symex.el attempts to be “the right language” here by supporting just a single noun — symexes — which, by virtue of its singularity, need not ever be stated and is implicit in every action[2]. But aside from this, Symex mimics Normal mode idioms and conventions. Therefore, a lot of these usage patterns should be very familiar from Vim/Evil even though they aren’t the same — they are the same ideas applied to symexes (along with other symex-specific ideas)."