Sometimes I like vi-style motion. At the same time, I really just want Emacs to be Emacs. I can't deal with viper or evil or whatever. I just wanted the ability to quickly turn on vi-style motion, move around, and then seamlessly hit Emacs-native keys and have them work w/o any drama.
set-transient-map allows this exact functionality. I'm sure that there are 100 other implementations just like this, but hadn't stumbled across them (didn't really look that hard), and I had 30 minutes to kill.
- Put vimot.el in a suitable for Emacs (e.g., ~/.emacs.d)
- Add to your ~/.emacs.d/init.el (or ~/.emacs, etc.):
;; vimot
(load-file "~/.emacs.d/vimot.el")
(vimotion-enable t)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-^") 'vimotion-activate)I should probably use a more sophisticated loading technique, but it's a low priority for me.