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#+TITLE: Evil-snipe layer
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* Table of Contents :TOC_4_gh:noexport:
- [[#description][Description]]
- [[#install][Install]]
- [[#layer][Layer]]
- [[#improved-f-and-t-search-behavior][Improved f and t search behavior]]
- [[#two-character-search-with-s][Two-character search with s]]
- [[#more-scopes][More scopes]]
- [[#symbol-groups][Symbol groups]]
- [[#key-bindings][Key bindings]]
* Description
The package [[https://github.com/hlissner/evil-snipe][evil-snipe]]
- enables more efficient searches with ~f~ / ~F~ / ~t~ / ~T~.
- adds a new, more precise search with ~s/S~
Evil-snipe allows you to search more quickly and precisely in the buffer. It
does so by improving on the built in ~f~ / ~F~ / ~t~ / ~T~ searches and adding another
search command, namely ~s~ / ~S~.
=evil-snipe= changes ~s/S~ behavior in order to search forward/backwards in the
buffer with two chars.
* Install
** Layer
To use this configuration layer, add it to your =~/.spacemacs=. You will need to
add =evil-snipe= to the existing =dotspacemacs-configuration-layers= list in this
file.
** Improved f and t search behavior
With evil-snipe you can define your own search scope for ~f~ and ~t~ searches
which means that you won't have to jump to the correct line before searching
with ~f~ / ~t~ / ~F~ / ~T~. And after you have found a match, you can just press
~f~ or ~t~ again afterwards to continue the search. No need to use ~;~ / ~,~.
This alternate behavior is disabled by default, to enable it set the
layer variable =evil-snipe-enable-alternate-f-and-t-behaviors= to =t=:
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers
'((evil-snipe :variables evil-snipe-enable-alternate-f-and-t-behaviors t)))
#+END_SRC
** Two-character search with s
With the ~s~/~S~ keys you can do a simple search like ~f~/~t~, but instead of
searching for one character, you search for two. This makes the search a lot
more precise than regular ~f~/~t~ searches. While you can search forward or
backwards in the buffer with ~/~ and ~?~, ~s~ / ~S~ are much easier to reach,
don't require you to press enter and they are precise enough for many common
purposes.
** More scopes
Evil-snipe also adds several scope options for searches (set =evil-snipe-scope=
and =evil-snipe-repeat-scope= to one of these, the default value is =buffer=):
| Value | Description |
|---------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| buffer | search in the rest of the buffer after the cursor (=vim-sneak= behavior) |
| line | search in the current line after the cursor (=vim-seek= behavior) |
| visible | search in the rest of the visible buffer only |
| whole-line | same as =line=, but highlight matches on either side of cursor |
| whole-buffer | same as =buffer=, but highlight *all* matches in buffer |
| whole-visible | same as 'visible, but highlight *all* visible matches in buffer |
If you do not want to replace the regular ~f~ / ~F~ / ~t~ / ~T~ behavior, just
remove this line from =evil-snipe/packages.el=:
=(evil-snipe-replace-evil)=
** Symbol groups
With symbol groups you can let a character stand for a regex, for example a
group of characters. By adding a pair of =(CHAR REGEX)= to the list
=evil-snipe-aliases= you can search for a regex very simply:
- Here we set the ~[~ character to mean =all characters [({= *in all modes* so a
search with ~sa[~ would find ~a[~, ~a{~ or ~a(~.
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
;; Alias [ and ] to all types of brackets
(push '(?\[ "[[{(]") evil-snipe-aliases)
(push '(?\] "[]})]") evil-snipe-aliases)
#+END_SRC
- Here we set the char ~:~ to mean =a regex matching python function
definitions= (but only in python-mode), so by searching with ~f:fff~ you can
quickly cycle through all function definitions in a buffer!
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
;; For python style functions
(add-hook 'python-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(make-variable-buffer-local 'evil-snipe-aliases)
(push '(?: "def .+:") evil-snipe-aliases)))
#+END_SRC
* TODO Key bindings