What happened?
In evil mode use keys such as cs([
It will not work when the example line is (test)
But will work when theres space around the character
Consider ( test )
What did you expect to happen?
There are several commands that only works when theres a space around text.
Steps to reproduce
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open a buffer
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Paste this following content
(Test)
Also paste this one
( Test )
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Try to execute the command by placing cursor on start of the bracket
cs([
Do the same thing on second example.
This will fail for first text (Test)
But will work on the second example.
Any thoughts? Appreciate any help!
System information
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Use cs)]
instead. Same rule goes for all paren/braces. E.g. ysiw[
== [ word ]
but ysiw]
== [word]
.
Thank you so much, this really helps!
Do you think I can replace/keep the original key behavior?
I think I have gotten use to with the muscle memory of the original shortcut.
No worries, if I cant.
Once again, I really appreciate the help – it had bothered me enough to ask this question.
Original? This has always been evil-surround’s behavior.
But you can change it by changing evil-surround-pairs-alist
. E.g. Here’s how you’d flip their semantics:
;;; add to $DOOMDIR/config.el
(after! evil-surround
(setf (alist-get ?\( evil-surround-pairs-alist) '("(" . ")")
(alist-get ?\[ evil-surround-pairs-alist) '("[" . "]")
(alist-get ?\{ evil-surround-pairs-alist) '("{" . "}")
;; optionally:
(alist-get ?\) evil-surround-pairs-alist) '("( " . " )")
(alist-get ?\] evil-surround-pairs-alist) '("[ " . " ]")
(alist-get ?\} evil-surround-pairs-alist) '("{ " . " }")))
This is amazing! Thank you!!!