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Multiple cursors implementation for evil-mode
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Arbitrary commands? #65

Closed Ambrevar closed 7 years ago

Ambrevar commented 7 years ago

From my understanding, only the limited set of evil-mc-known-commands.el is available, anything else will apply to one cursor only. I miss features, such as evil-search-forward, capitalize-word, just-one-space and many more. Reimplementating all of Emacs' editing features just for this mode does not seem like a viable option.

Is it a limitation due to evil-mode? github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el is able to run arbitrary Emacs commands, only some Evil commands fail somehow.

Any take on this?

gabesoft commented 7 years ago

Most of those commands can be added to evil-mc-known-commands in a pretty trivial way. Yes the limitation is due to evil mode. Although, there may be a way to implement arbitrary commands, I'm just not aware of it.

gabesoft commented 7 years ago

Actually, evil-search-forward is a known command but seems broken at the moment. I'll take a look when I have some time.

gabesoft commented 7 years ago

There doesn't seem to be an easy way to support search commands such as evil-search-forward and evil-search-backward so I made a note of it in the README. I may revisit this when I have more time or I'd be happy to accept pull requests for those. I added capitalize-word in this commit 506f92dc610906fc279e50c598efe2068161edaa as an example of what's required to add a command to the known commands. I'm closing this for now as there isn't anything more actionable here. Feel free to re-open if you have more thoughts.