spacemacs-evil layer

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1. Description
- 1.1. Features:
2. Install
3. Note about evil-collection

1. Description

This layer adds various adjustments to packages to create an evilified experience throughout the entirety of Spacemacs.

1.1. Features:

Add evil tutorial with evil-tutor
Add escaping under fd by default with evil-escape
Add occurrences count in mode-line when searching a buffer
Add support for lisp structure manipulation with evil-lisp-state
Add safe structural editing of lisp dialects with evil-cleverparens
Add evil-exchange to swap text
Add easy live editing of multiple occurrences with evil-iedit-state
Add new vim text objects for indentation with evil-indent-plus
Add operations to align text with evil-lion
Easy management of comments with evil-nerd-commenter
Navigation between pairs with evil-matchit
Advanced navigation on brackets with evil-unimpaired
Easy increment and decrement of numbers with evil-number
Support for additional vim movements via evil-args
Support for surrounding the marked area with a given character via evil-surround
Evilification of various modes if the editing style is vim or hybrid
Improves the comment function to be able to also do the inverse operation
Persistent highlight of searched text with evil-search-highlight-persist
Display tildes in non-buffer area with vi-tilde-fringe
Add evil-collection

2. Install

The spacemacs-evil layer is included by default in the Spacemacs distribution.

3. Note about evil-collection

evil-collection is a collection of Evil bindings for the parts of Emacs that Evil does not cover properly by default, such as help-mode, M-x calendar, Eshell and more.

However, there is a large overlap of features provided by both Spacemacs and evil-collection. For the same feature, Spacemacs implementation is often better than evil-collection.

That's said, when evil-collection is used carefully we can reduce the amount of effort wasted on reinventing the wheel on Spacemacs side.

Spacemacs provides a layer variable spacemacs-evil-collection-allowed-list for users and layer hackers to enable evil-collection on their desired modes.

For users, if you want to enable evil-collection on eglot, then you will need to declare this layer with it variable explicitly:

(spacemacs-evil :variables
                    spacemacs-evil-collection-allowed-list
                   '(eglot))

For Spacemacs hackers check out git layer to see how we apply evil-collection to magit.