alesya-h/evil-insert-jk-for-normal-mode.el

Created January 3, 2012 11:46

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type jk in insert mode to switch to normal mode (for emacs-evil)

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evil-insert-jk-for-normal-mode.el

+(defun evil-insert-jk-for-normal-mode ()
+  (interactive)
+  (insert "j")
+  (let ((event (read-event nil)))
+    (if (= event ?k)
+      (progn
+        (backward-delete-char 1)
+        (evil-normal-state))
+      (push event unread-command-events))))
+(define-key evil-insert-state-map "j" 'evil-insert-jk-for-normal-mode)

jdhao commented Oct 12, 2021

It works, but we can not insert jk literally anymore, which is not satisfactory.

jdhao commented Oct 12, 2021 •

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A better solution is this.

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