Hi Frank, It works!
It took a 'make all' followed by a cold restart of Emacs. Now it works from the first run. Thanks for your help, and for evil! Guido On 28 January 2013 08:53, Guido Van Hoecke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Frank, > > On 27 January 2013 19:46, Frank Fischer <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 2013-01-27, Guido Van Hoecke <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I have a file that I want to visit, go to the second character of the >>> fourth word, and enter replace mode: >>> >>> (defun guivho-test(name-of-file) >>> "Visit file, goto fourth word, second char and enter replace mode" >>> (interactive "fName of file: ") >>> (find-file name-of-file) >>> (beginning-of-line) >>> (evil-forward-WORD-begin 3) >>> (evil-forward-char) >>> (evil-replace-state)) >>> >>> Test-file contents: >>> >>> line1 word1 word2 word3 >>> line2 word1 word2 word3 >>> line3 word1 word2 word3 >>> line4 word1 word2 word3 >>> >>> I do not understand why the last the evil-forward-char and the >>> evil-replace-state do not work when the file is not yet loaded, but do >>> work if the guivho-test is executed from the buffer that already has the >>> file. The first run leaves the cursor on the begin of the fourth word, >>> ans it remains in normal mode; executing it again does advance the extra >>> character and switches to replace mode. >> >> I can't reproduce that, in all my tests everything works >> as expected. Which evil version and Emacs version do you use? What > > > $ emacs-version > GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36) > of 2012-08-27 on bob.porkrind.org > > $ evil-version > Evil version 0.1 > >> happens if you test with "make emacs" from evil's source? > > I just pulled in the current source and the behaviour is not changed: > works the second time (from the file's buffer), not the first time > > Let me use this opportunity to praise evil. This is a terrific > implementation of the vim paradigm and truly unites the best of the two > best editors in the world. I particularly admire the seamless > integration, it is indeed way better than any previous vi emulations > I've been through before. > > > Kind regards, > > > > Guido > > (P.S. Sorry about the org-version mixup in my previous reply) > > -- > They are cold-blooded. They are completely ruthless about protecting > what they have. The only thing they connect to is the money aspect of > life. Let's face it: That's the American way. > -- Jeffery M. Johnson, regional chairman of the District > of Columbia United Way, speaking of drug dealers. > > http://vanhoecke.org ... and go2 places! _______________________________________________ implementations-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/implementations-list
