Key Bindings and Evil

We need to update the load-theme call to avoid a prompt at startup, (load-theme 'doom-dracula t)

Thanks to Kyle Sexton and Nathan Chen for pointing out that all-the-icons is needed for doom-modeline to display correctly!

define-key and global-set-key

general.el examples

(use-package general
  :config
  (general-evil-setup t)

  (general-create-definer rune/leader-keys
    :keymaps '(normal insert visual emacs)
    :prefix "SPC"
    :global-prefix "C-SPC"))

(rune/leader-keys
  "t"  '(:ignore t :which-key "toggles")
  "tt" '(counsel-load-theme :which-key "choose theme"))

evil-mode on GitHub evil-collection on GitHub

(defun rune/evil-hook ()
  (dolist (mode '(custom-mode
                  eshell-mode
                  git-rebase-mode
                  erc-mode
                  circe-server-mode
                  circe-chat-mode
                  circe-query-mode
                  sauron-mode
                  term-mode))
   (add-to-list 'evil-emacs-state-modes mode)))

(use-package evil
  :init
  (setq evil-want-integration t)
  (setq evil-want-keybinding nil)
  (setq evil-want-C-u-scroll t)
  (setq evil-want-C-i-jump nil)
  :hook (evil-mode . rune/evil-hook)
  :config
  (evil-mode 1)
  (define-key evil-insert-state-map (kbd "C-g") 'evil-normal-state)
  (define-key evil-insert-state-map (kbd "C-h") 'evil-delete-backward-char-and-join)

  ;; Use visual line motions even outside of visual-line-mode buffers
  (evil-global-set-key 'motion "j" 'evil-next-visual-line)
  (evil-global-set-key 'motion "k" 'evil-previous-visual-line)

  (evil-set-initial-state 'messages-buffer-mode 'normal)
  (evil-set-initial-state 'dashboard-mode 'normal))

(use-package evil-collection
  :after evil
  :config
  (evil-collection-init))

;; Mention evil-collection-mode-list

Configuring evil-collection

If we want to be hardcore…

(defun rune/dont-arrow-me-bro ()
  (interactive)
  (message "Arrow keys are bad, you know?"))

  ;; Disable arrow keys in normal and visual modes
  (define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "<left>") 'rune/dont-arrow-me-bro)
  (define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "<right>") 'rune/dont-arrow-me-bro)
  (define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "<down>") 'rune/dont-arrow-me-bro)
  (define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "<up>") 'rune/dont-arrow-me-bro)
  (evil-global-set-key 'motion (kbd "<left>") 'rune/dont-arrow-me-bro)
  (evil-global-set-key 'motion (kbd "<right>") 'rune/dont-arrow-me-bro)
  (evil-global-set-key 'motion (kbd "<down>") 'rune/dont-arrow-me-bro)
  (evil-global-set-key 'motion (kbd "<up>") 'rune/dont-arrow-me-bro)

Hydra on GitHub

(use-package hydra)

(defhydra hydra-text-scale (:timeout 4)
  "scale text"
  ("j" text-scale-increase "in")
  ("k" text-scale-decrease "out"))
  ("f" nil "finished" :exit t))

(rune/leader-keys
  "ts" '(hydra-text-scale/body :which-key "scale text"))