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?

  • nmtake@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    I stick with C-s (similar to vim’s /) because of the exact reason you said, and I’m happy with C-s.

    Please note that C-s <some characters> RET moves the cursor at the end of the target (/ moves it at the beginning). If you don’t like the behavior, see this post (I use C-s ... C-r RET in that case).