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From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: visualize evil insert mode
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2018 15:04:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87in5v884r.fsf@telefonica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k1qb8pqf.fsf@radagast.pgxml.net

emacs-list-18@pgxml.net writes:

>  i am searching for ideas how to visualize that evil mode is in insert
>  state.
>
>  Till now i use a funvtion that is hooked into the post-command-hook
>  that moves an overlay (face bold) like this:
>
> (defun ck/evil/move-insert-mode-overlay()
>   "move the insert mode overlay"
>   (move-overlay ck/insert-mode-overlay (line-beginning-position)
>                                        (line-end-position))
>   )
>
>  This works, but is not that nice. For example on an empty line, i dont
>  have any visual feedback.
>
> Any other ideas for this? No, hl-line-mode  does not count... ;-)

It depends on what you mean when you say "visualize".

I use

(setq evil-insert-state-cursor '("red" hbar))
(setq evil-insert-state-tag
  (propertize "<I>" 'face '((:foreground "white" :background "red"))))

Similar for the other modes.




  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-04 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-04  6:44 visualize evil insert mode emacs-list-18
2018-07-04 13:04 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2018-07-05  6:30   ` emacs-list-18
2018-07-04 13:14 ` Bingo

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