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iedit contribution layer for Spacemacs
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This layer replaces auto-highlight-symbol back end by iedit.
It comes with two new evil states:
- iedit state
- iedit-insert state
These states color code is red.
It has also a nice integration with expand-region for quick edit of the current selected text by pressing e.
Install
To use this contribution add it to your ~/.spacemacs
(defvar dotspacemacs-configuration-layers '(iedit)
"List of contribution to load."
)
Key bindings
State transitions
To iedit state:
- SPC s e initiates the
iedit statein normal mode. - e initiates the
iedit statewhile expanding region. - ESC in
iedit-insert statereturns toiedit state.
To iedit-insert state
- i in
iedit statetriggers theiedit-insert state.
To normal state
- ESC in
iedit statereturns tonormal state. - C-g returns to normal mode
- fd returns to normal mode (if
evil-escapeis enabled)
To sum-up, in iedit-insert state you have to press ESC twice to
go back to the normal state. You can also at any time press C-g
or fd to return to normal state.
In iedit state
Key Binding | Description
--------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------
ESC | go back to normal state
# | prefix all occurrences with an increasing number
b | make all occurrences blank
B | toggle buffering (use it for large buffers with a lof of occurrences)
c | evil-change (for convenience)
d | delete the occurrences
D | down-case the occurrences
f | restrict the scope to the function
"gg" | go to first occurrence
G | go to last occurrence
i | switch to iedit-insert state
I | toggle case-sensitivity
h | evil-backward-char
j | evil-next-visual-line
k | evil-previous-visual-line
l | evil-forward-char
J | increase the edition scope by one line below
K | increase the edition scope by one line above
L | restrict the scope to the current line
n | go to next occurrence
N | go to previous occurrence
p | replace occurrences with last yanked (copied) text
r | (replace) delete the occurrences and switch to iedit-insert state
v | toggle visibility of lines with no occurrence
u | undo (for convenience)
U | Up-case the occurrences
In iedit-insert state
Key Binding | Description
---------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------
ESC | go back to iedit state
C-g | go back to normal state
Examples
- manual selection of several words then replace: v w w SPC s e r "toto" ESC ESC
- append text to a word on two lines: SPC v i w SPC s e j i "toto" ESC ESC
- replace symbol with expand-region: SPC v v e r "toto" ESC ESC
- replace symbol with yanked (copied) text with expand region: v e p ESC ESC
Tips
The first N put the cursor at the beginning of the edited selection.