From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: M-x in Evil mode Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 21:34:07 +0000 Organization: CPSE, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London (UCL) Message-ID: <87oaeb894g.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> References: <1179e62f-668f-4cb0-9d9b-555b2146a97b@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448922223 11676 80.91.229.3 (30 Nov 2015 22:23:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 22:23:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 30 23:23:37 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a3WrB-0001je-4O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 23:23:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43650 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3WrA-0003rb-Eh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 17:23:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57913) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3Wqu-0003nS-7Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 17:23:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3Wqr-0008Ou-2b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 17:23:20 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52115) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a3Wqq-0008Op-Mt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 17:23:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a3WqP-0000Fa-5z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 23:22:54 +0100 Original-Received: from 2.30.180.239 ([2.30.180.239]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 23:22:44 +0100 Original-Received: from e.fraga by 2.30.180.239 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2015 23:22:44 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2.30.180.239 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-Url: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:HcJAcCAzVR3y443TvllvlGvAw28= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108263 Archived-At: On Saturday, 28 Nov 2015 at 17:20, wiehen@gmail.com wrote: > Hi. > > I am new to emacs, so my doubt may be really basic. But I could not > solve it with research. > > How am I supposed to execute commands (M-x), when working in Evil > mode, as Vim uses already? You have had other answers but another option is to use the \ evil command which allows you to execute any emacs key stroke as if evil were not running: ,----[ C-h k \ ] | \ runs the command evil-execute-in-emacs-state, which is an | interactive compiled Lisp function in `evil-commands.el'. | | It is bound to \. | | (evil-execute-in-emacs-state) | | Execute the next command in Emacs state. | | [back] `---- -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 24.5.1 + Ma Gnus v0.14 + evil-git-ff74cfb : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2015-10-28 10:47:01+00:00)