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* Black magic

  This library configures Magit and Evil to play well with each other. For some
  background see [[https://github.com/justbur/evil-magit/issues/1][Issue #1]].

  *Note*: I intend to track the latest commits to the master branch of the [[https://github.com/magit/magit][magit
  repo]], meaning the keybindings here are potentially ahead of the last stable
  release of magit. Once the code in evil-collection-magit stabilizes, I may switch to
  primarily tracking the stable release of magit and secondarily track the latest
  commits to master. Any help is welcomed.

* Recent Changes (most recent first)

  1. [2019-09-04] Don't use =evil-next-visual-line= and
     =evil=previous-visual-line=. See [[https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil-magit/issues/70][Issue #70]].
  1. [2019-06-16] Added =evil-collection-magit-stage-untracked-file-with-intent= at
     =I=. See [[https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil-magit/issues/67][Issue #67]].
  2. [2019-02-15] Added =forge-dispatch= at =@=.
  3. [2018-05-22] Added =evil-collection-magit-use-z-for-folds=. See docstring for more
     information.
  4. [2018-03-13] Added basic evil support for =magit-list-repositories=.
  5. [2016-07-27] Moved submodules popup to ' and added the new subtree popup at
     ". This is not mnemonic in any way but easy to reach and keeps the two keys
     together.
  6. [2016-03-24] Moved =magit-diff-less-context= to = to fix conflict with
     moved revert.
  7. [2016-03-21] Moved revert commands from =o= and =O= to =-= and
     =_=. Rationale is that you are subtracting a commit. This makes room for
     =o= and =O= to be reset and the new reset popup command. Think of resetting
     to an "old" state. =¯\_(ツ)_/¯=
  8. Added =evil-collection-magit-want-horizontal-movement=. Use =h= and =l= for movement
     like vim, moving =h= to =H=, =l= to =L=, and =L= to =C-l=.
  9. Added =evil-collection-magit-toggle-text-mode= on =C-t=. This is a quick way to enter
     text mode in a magit buffer, which allows arbitrary movement, copying, etc.
     Use =C-t= to return to the previous magit mode.
  10. When =evil-collection-magit-use-y-for-yank= is non nil, =C-w= will prefix the evil
      window switching functions from magit buffers.
  11. =evil-collection-magit-use-y-for-yank= is now the default. It has worked well for me so
      far, and I've had good feedback, but please let me know if you see issues.
      You can use the original behavior with =(setq evil-collection-magit-use-y-for-yank
      nil)=. See the table below for a summary of differences.


* Installation and Use

  Evil and Magit are both required. After requiring those packages, the following
  will setup the new key bindings for you.

  #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
  ;; optional: this is the evil state that evil-collection-magit will use
  ;; (setq evil-collection-magit-state 'normal)
  ;; optional: disable additional bindings for yanking text
  ;; (setq evil-collection-magit-use-y-for-yank nil)
  (evil-collection-init)
  #+END_SRC emacs-lisp

** Note on Evil usage

   This package assumes that you either use the global variant of evil mode (e.g.,
   through =(evil-mode 1)=), or at least have =evil-local-mode= (the local variant)
   enabled in the magit buffers you want these bindings to take effect in. When
   evil is disabled in a magit buffer, this package will not affect the default key
   bindings (with one minor exception).

** Note on =evil-collection-magit-use-y-for-yank=

   =evil-collection-magit-use-y-for-yank= enables evil's visual state for linewise selection,
   and as a consequnce =y= will yank text from the buffer.

   With this enabled which it is by default evil-collection-magit uses =v= and =V= to select
   by line. Selection in magit occurs linewise, so this choice is to avoid
   confusion that might arise if someone thought they could stage part of a line
   with =v= for example.

** Text mode

   Text mode can be toggled with =evil-collection-magit-toggle-text-mode= (triggered with
   =C-t= or =\=). This takes nearly any magit buffer out of the related magit mode
   and puts it into =text-mode=. This allows free movement in the buffer using the
   standard evil movement and selection commands, making it easy to for example
   copy arbitrary text in the buffer. It also effectively prevents magit keys from
   shadowing evil ones, so =f= runs =evil-find-char= instead of
   =magit-fetch-popup=, allowing all vim related movement commands to be used in
   magit buffers. You can think of this if you like as another state for evil-collection-magit
   to be in.

   Several requests have been made to allow selecting and copying arbitrary text in
   the magit buffers, but there are many conflicts between evil bindings and magit
   bindings and there is no elegant solution to this problem in my opinion. Text
   mode is the best that I have come up with.

* Key Bindings

  The basic key binding scheme for evil-collection-magit (EM) is described in the following
  tables. Blank columns indicate that the key is carried over from the left.

  | Category               | Default | EM w/o yank opt        | w/ yank opt (default) | w/ horiz move | w/ folds |
  |------------------------+---------+------------------------+-----------------------+---------------+----------|
  | cherry pick            | =a/A=   |                        |                       |               |          |
  | branch                 | =b=     |                        |                       |               |          |
  | bisect                 | =B=     |                        |                       |               |          |
  | commit                 | =c=     |                        |                       |               |          |
  | diff                   | =d/D=   |                        |                       |               |          |
  | ediff                  | =e/E=   |                        |                       |               |          |
  | fetch                  | =f=     |                        |                       |               |          |
  | pull                   | =F=     |                        |                       |               |          |
  | refresh                | =g=     | =gr/gR= (=g= in popup) |                       |               |          |
  | help                   | =h/?=   |                        |                       | =H/?=         |          |
  | ignore                 | =i/I=   |                        |                       |               |          |
  | intent to stage        | =I=     |                        |                       |               |          |
  | jump                   | =j=     | =g=                    |                       |               |          |
  | delete                 | =k=     | =x=                    |                       |               |          |
  | untrack                | =K=     | =X=                    |                       |               |          |
  | log                    | =l/L=   |                        |                       | =L/C-l=       |          |
  | merge                  | =m=     |                        |                       |               |          |
  | remote                 | =M=     |                        |                       |               |          |
  | next section           | =n=     | =C-j=                  |                       |               |          |
  | next section sibling   | =M-n=   | =gj= or =]=            |                       |               |          |
  | submodule              | =o=     | '                      |                       |               |          |
  | subtree                | =O=     | "                      |                       |               |          |
  | prev section           | =p=     | =C-k=                  |                       |               |          |
  | prev section sibling   | =M-p=   | =gk= or =[=            |                       |               |          |
  | push                   | =P=     | =P= or =p=             |                       |               |          |
  | quit                   | =q=     | =q= or =ESC=           |                       |               |          |
  | rebase                 | =r=     |                        |                       |               |          |
  | rename                 | =R=     |                        |                       |               |          |
  | stage                  | =s/S=   |                        |                       |               |          |
  | tag                    | =t=     |                        |                       |               |          |
  | notes                  | =T=     |                        |                       |               |          |
  | unstage                | =u/U=   |                        |                       |               |          |
  | revert                 | =v/V=   | =-/_=                  |                       |               |          |
  | am                     | =w=     |                        |                       |               |          |
  | patch                  | =W=     |                        |                       |               |          |
  | reset                  | =x/X=   | =o/O=                  |                       |               |          |
  | show-refs              | =y=     |                        | =yr= (=y= in popup)   |               |          |
  | cherry                 | =Y=     |                        |                       |               |          |
  | worktree               | =Z=     |                        |                       |               | =%=      |
  | stash                  | =z/Z=   |                        |                       |               | =Z=      |
  | git-cmd                | =:=     | =¦=                    |                       |               |          |
  | run                    | =!=     |                        |                       |               |          |
  | forge                  | =@=     |                        |                       |               |          |
  | diff less/more context | =-/+=   | = / +                  |                       |               |          |
  | copy section info      | =C-w=   |                        | =ys=                  |               |          |
  | copy buffer info       | =M-w=   |                        | =yb=                  |               |          |

** New Commands

   | Command                     | EM w/o yank opt          | EM w/ yank opt (default) | w/ horiz move |
   |-----------------------------+--------------------------+--------------------------+---------------|
   | evil-goto-line              | =G=                      |                          |               |
   | evil-next-visual-line       | =j=                      |                          |               |
   | evil-previous-visual-line   | =k=                      |                          |               |
   | evil-backward-char          | under =M-x=              |                          | =h=           |
   | evil-forward-char           | under =M-x=              |                          | =l=           |
   | evil-search-next            | =n=                      |                          |               |
   | evil-search-previous        | =N=                      |                          |               |
   | set-mark-command            | =v= or =V=               | =C-SPC=                  |               |
   | evil-visual-line            | under =M-x=              | =v= or =V=               |               |
   | evil-ex                     | =:=                      |                          |               |
   | evil-search-forward         | =/=                      |                          |               |
   | evil-scroll-page-up         | =C-b=                    |                          |               |
   | evil-scroll-down            | =C-d=                    |                          |               |
   | evil-scroll-page-down       | =C-f=                    |                          |               |
   | evil-scroll-up              | =C-u= (if =C-u= scrolls) |                          |               |
   | evil-emacs-state            | =C-z=                    |                          |               |
   | evil-yank-line              | under =M-x=              | =yy=                     |               |
   | evil-window-map             | under =M-x=              | =C-w=                    |               |
   | evil-collection-magit-toggle-text-mode | =C-t/\=                  |                          |               |


   Any other bindings are meant to be consistent with these.

   Use =evil-collection-magit-revert= to revert changes made by evil-collection-magit to the default
   evil+magit behavior.

** To add other common evil commands

   Some may want =?= to search backward instead of launching the popup which is
   also bound to =h=. To get this behavior, add the following line after
   =(evil-collection-init)= in your configuration.

   #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(evil-define-key evil-collection-magit-state magit-mode-map "?" 'evil-search-backward)
   #+END_SRC

   Most (but not all) magit bindings are in =magit-mode-map=, so other commands can
   be bound in this way too.

** To remove commands

   Typically, to prevent evil-collection-magit from overriding the default behavior with evil
   and magit loaded, you should bind the respective key to =nil= after loading
   evil-collection-magit. For example, to make =escape= behave as default:

   #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(evil-define-key* evil-collection-magit-state magit-mode-map [escape] nil)
   #+END_SRC

* Known Conflicts

  These are the third-party packages that conflict with these bindings and will
  probably need to be disabled in magit buffers for evil-collection-magit to work properly.

  1. [[https://github.com/hlissner/evil-snipe][evil-snipe]]
  2. [[https://github.com/syl20bnr/evil-escape][evil-escape]] with [[https://github.com/justbur/evil-magit/issues/4][certain escape sequences]]

* Disclaimer

  Given the complexity of magit key bindings combined with the complexity of git
  itself, it is possible that there are some rough edges where the current binding
  is not the expected one in a buffer. It will be very helpful for you to report
  any such instances.