I kind of let this thread drop, but I just wanted to say thanks to everyone
for sharing. I am interested in exploring modal editing, maybe in June
which, it turns out, is when I *actually* will have free time...

thanks everyone!

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Thursday, 30 Mar 2017 at 10:14, Guido Van Hoecke wrote:
> > Eric,
> >
> > Care to share your org-evil mappings?
>
> sure:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (defun esf/evil-key-bindings-for-org ()
>     ;;(message "Defining evil key bindings for org")
>     (when (fboundp 'evil-declare-key)
>       ;; normal, motion and visual commands
>       (mapcar (lambda (state)
>                 (evil-declare-key state org-mode-map
>                   "  " 'evil-scroll-down
>                   " e" 'org-edit-special
>                   " g" 'org-babel-goto-named-src-block
>                   " j" 'org-babel-next-src-block
>                   " k" 'org-babel-previous-src-block
>                   " l" 'org-next-link
>                   " n" 'org-babel-next-src-block
>                   " p" 'org-babel-previous-src-block
>                   " u" 'outline-up-heading
>                   "gh" 'outline-up-heading
>                   "gj" 'org-forward-heading-same-level
>                   "gk" 'org-backward-heading-same-level
>                   "gl" 'outline-next-visible-heading
>                   "t" 'org-todo ; mark a TODO item as DONE
>                   ",e" 'org-export-dispatch
>                   ",i" 'org-inlinetask-insert-task
>                   ",l" 'org-insert-link
>                   ",L" 'org-store-link
>                   ",n" 'outline-next-visible-heading
>                   ",oa" #'org-annotate-add-note
>                   ",od" #'org-annotate-display-notes
>                   ",p" 'outline-previous-visible-heading
>                   ",r" 'org-ref-insert-cite-link
>                   ;; ",t" 'org-set-tags-command
>                   ",u" 'outline-up-heading
>                   "$" 'org-end-of-line ; smarter behaviour on headlines
> etc.
>                   "^" 'org-beginning-of-line ; ditto
>                   "-" 'org-ctrl-c-minus ; change bullet style
>                   "<" 'org-metaleft ; out-dent
>                   ">" 'org-metaright ; indent
>                   (kbd "M-l") 'org-metaright
>                   (kbd "M-h") 'org-metaleft
>                   (kbd "M-k") 'org-metaup
>                   (kbd "M-j") 'org-metadown
>                   (kbd "M-L") 'org-shiftmetaright
>                   (kbd "M-H") 'org-shiftmetaleft
>                   (kbd "M-K") 'org-shiftmetaup
>                   (kbd "M-J") 'org-shiftmetadown))
>               '(normal motion visual))
>       ;; and these are only for motion and visual so that . does not
> repeat them
>       (mapcar (lambda (state)
>                 (evil-declare-key state org-mode-map
>                   "H" 'org-beginning-of-line ; smarter behaviour on
> headlines etc.
>                   ;; "L" 'end-of-line ; do not want "smarter" behaviour on
> headlines etc.
>                   "L" 'org-end-of-line ; do not want "smarter" behaviour
> on headlines etc.
>                   ))
>               '(motion visual))
>       (evil-declare-key 'insert org-mode-map
>         (kbd "<backspace>") 'hungry-delete-backward
>         (kbd "M-l") 'org-metaright
>         (kbd "M-h") 'org-metaleft
>         (kbd "M-k") 'org-metaup
>         (kbd "M-j") 'org-metadown
>         (kbd "M-L") 'org-shiftmetaright
>         (kbd "M-H") 'org-shiftmetaleft
>         (kbd "M-K") 'org-shiftmetaup
>         (kbd "M-J") 'org-shiftmetadown)
>       (when (not esf/pandora-p)
>         (evil-declare-key 'insert org-mode-map
>           (kbd "<backspace>") 'hungry-delete-backward))))
> #+end_src
>
> > One 'conflict' which bites me every time is this:
>
> I cannot help with this unfortunately other than to maybe trying to
> advise the search function...
>
> --
> : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.1.1, Org release_9.0.5-391-g36c7cf
>