As a long time Vimmer, I have recently started using Emacs out of sheer curiosity. I chose Doom Emacs as it has evil-mode enabled by default, and do not want to dive down the rabbit hole of configuring the editor from scratch (at least, not yet!).
After installing and enabling libvterm in Emacs, I am having a frustrating experience. I configured ZSH shell to use vi-mode keybindings which interferes with evil-mode whenever I press Esc or C-[.
After having searched a little, I came across a workaround to disable evil-mode when in vterm. But it is still not a smooth experience. For instance, when switching between buffers (C-w C-w).
I would like to know how others in the community tackled this problem. Is there a better solution to this problem? Or have you made peace with the aforementioned workaround? Or have you stopped using vterm entirely?
My basic approach is:
Escworks like in normalevil-mode, and takes me intovterm-copy-modeas well. Without doing that, I haveC-w C-wremapped to move to another window, so I can switch to another window for all the rest of my keybindings. And I haveC-Escmapped to sendEscinto the terminal itself.I’m using
evil-collectionfor the basic bindings, and I have my own custom stuff here: https://github.com/bricka/emacs.d/blob/main/init.el#L1054-L1073Edit: Forgot
C-EscThanks for the tip as well as your configuration.