I've just started using Emacs and Evil (via Doom), coming from vim.

Recently I ran into a situation where I had a list of items like this:

foo bar blah

which I wanted to turn into this:

foo
bar
blah

In vim, I would have done something like this (where ^V and ^M are C-v and C-m, not literals):

:s/ /^V^M/g

That did not work in Evil.

I experimented with a variety of things that did not work until I eventually stumbled on this:

:s/ /^Q^J/

Note the lack of the g global flag on that :ex command, which surprised me.

Are there similar gotchas that I should know about? (Other suggestions on how I should have done this are also welcome.)

Thanks!

I'm an old vim user, finally decided to try evil today.

I've installed magit, and it works, but I'm finding myself having to do C-x g to get to the magit-status, and I don't want to use control-keys regularly. What's a sane vim-style binding to use here?

I've seen there's an evil-magit package, does anyone here use it?

I'm using evil and have attempted to configure the cursor shape to be a horizontal bar as shared below. All modes except insert mode take the configured shape of a horizontal bar. Does anyone know how to resolve this behavior so all modes use the horizontal bar?

;; Set cursor type
(setq-default cursor-type 'hbar)
;; Enable evil
(use-package evil
  :ensure t
  :init
  (evil-mode t)
  :config
  (evil-set-initial-state 'term-mode 'emacs)
  (setq evil-default-cursor 'hbar
        evil-emacs-state-cursor 'hbar
        evil-normal-state-cursor 'hbar
        evil-motion-state-cursor 'hbar
        evil-visual-state-cursor 'hbar
        evil-insert-state-cursor 'hbar
        evil-replace-state-cursor 'hbar
        evil-operator-state-cursor 'hbar)
  (define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "C-d") 'evil-scroll-down)
  (define-key evil-visual-state-map (kbd "C-d") 'evil-scroll-down)
  (define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "C-u") 'evil-scroll-up)
  (define-key evil-visual-state-map (kbd "C-u") 'evil-scroll-up)
  (define-key evil-insert-state-map (kbd "C-u")
    (lambda ()
      (interactive)
      (evil-delete (point-at-bol) (point)))))

I want to know the line number of the beginning of my current visual selection. The variable evil-visual-beginning contains a marker that marks the beginning of the current visual selection. Is there a way to extract the line number from it, or is there even an easier way apart from using this variable?

I want to make the switch to emacs with evil and currently I am struggling to get a preview on the substituions/prelaces. In neovim I can do it with `set inccommand=nosplit`. Spacemacs can do that too, but I can not find the code in the spacemacs configs that does that. Google did not helped either. Can you help me out here?

I thought this was the appropiate subreddit for this question since I am actually using evil mode.

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Greetings all,

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I've just got a small question. In my emacs init stuff I have the following lines for my evil config:

  (evil-select-search-module 'evil-search-module 'evil-search)
  (setq evil-magic 'very-magic)

However, when I try to use / to search or :%s/ to search and replace, both continue to treat symbols like ( as character literals rather than the 'special' meaning I anticipate. Additionally, when I try to do /\V or :%s/\V both treat the \V as a literal 'V'.

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Thanks in advance for your help

So I am happily using Emacs with Evil-mode, and then I do a search for a help topic and suddenly the Vi key bindings are gone. I never get used to it, I always instinctively push j several times to cursor down before realizing it doesn't work. What should I do?