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title: Quick normal-state
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tags: emacs, evil
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date: 2014-07-11 00:47
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format: md
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I realized today that most of the time (over 90%) of the time I save a
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file I feel I have finished typing something. Typing this out makes it
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sound very obvious, actually. One other thing I noticed is that I
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still forget to return to normal-state after I'm done editing. Emacs
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being hackable and not being content with twisting my brain to suit my
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editor but rather twisting my editor to suit me, I thought I might
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automate it a little.
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My first idea was to have evil automatically revert to normal-state
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whenever I save and also whenever I switch buffers. I haven't found a
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hook that runs when switching buffers, so I'll need to brush up on my
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advising skills and have it run just before switching, perhaps even
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when `execute-extended-command` or `smex` run, so any explicit minibuffer
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action returns to normal state.
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For now it's just the save file, and only for buffers that aren't in
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the emacs-state as default list:
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``` emacs-lisp
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(defun modes-starting-in (state)
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"Get a list of modes whose default state is STATE."
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(symbol-value (evil-state-property state :modes)))
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(defun maybe-switch-to-normal-state ()
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"Switch the current buffer to normal state.
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Only do this when the mode is not in emacs state by
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default."
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(unless (memql major-mode (modes-starting-in 'emacs))
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(evil-normal-state)))
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(with-eval-after-load 'evil
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(add-hook 'after-save-hook
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#'maybe-switch-to-normal-state))
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```
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I personally only use either normal-state or emacs-state as default
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states when a mode loads, if you want to check more you'll have to add
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some more calls to `memq` and change `emacs` to, for example `insert` or
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`visual` or whichever you need.
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