evil-escape

Table of Contents

• evil-escape
  • Install
  • Usage
  • Customization
    • Key sequence
    • Delay between keys
    • Unordered key sequence
    • Excluding a major mode
    • Enable only for a list of major modes
    • Inhibit evil-escape
    • Assign a key binding directly

Customizable key sequence to escape from insert state and everything else in Emacs.

Version 3.0 is a rewrite of evil-escape and removes the previous limitations:

• escape sequence can now be used in macros
• there is no limitation on the choice of key for the first key of the sequence.

Press quickly fd (or the 2-keys sequence of your choice) to:

• escape from all stock evil states to normal state
• escape from evil-lisp-state to normal state
• escape from evil-iedit-state to normal state
• abort evil ex command
• quit minibuffer
• abort isearch
• quit ibuffer
• quit image buffer
• quit compilation buffers
• quit magit buffers
• quit help buffers
• quit apropos buffers
• quit ert buffers
• quit undo-tree buffer
• quit paradox
• quit gist-list menu
• quit helm-ag-edit
• hide neotree buffer
• hide treemacs buffer
• quit evil-multiedit

And more to come !

Contributions to support more buffers are very welcome: Escape Everything !

Install

The package is available in MELPA.

If you have MELPA in package-archives, use

M-x package-install RET evil-escape RET

If you don't, open evil-escape.el in Emacs and call package-install-from-buffer.

Usage

To toggle the evil-escape mode globally:

M-x evil-escape-mode

Customization

Key sequence

The key sequence can be customized with the variable evil-escape-key-sequence. For instance to change it for jk:

(setq-default evil-escape-key-sequence "jk")

Delay between keys

The delay between the two key presses can be customized with the variable evil-escape-delay. The default value is 0.1. If your key sequence is composed with the two same characters it is recommended to set the delay to 0.2.

(setq-default evil-escape-delay 0.2)

Unordered key sequence

The key sequence can be entered in any order by setting the variable evil-escape-unordered-key-sequence to non nil.

Excluding a major mode

A major mode can be excluded by adding it to the list evil-escape-excluded-major-modes.

Enable only for a list of major modes

An inclusive list of major modes can defined with the variable evil-escape-enable-only-for-major-modes. When this list is non-nil then evil-escape is enabled only for the major-modes in the list.

Inhibit evil-escape

A list of zero arity functions can be defined with variable evil-escape-inhibit-functions, if any of these functions return non nil then evil-escape is inhibited. It is also possible to inhibit evil-escape in a let binding by setting the evil-escape-inhibit variable to non nil.

Assign a key binding directly

It is possible to bind evil-escape' function directly, for instance to execute evil-escape with C-c C-g:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c C-g") 'evil-escape)