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Description
Yet Another modal editing
Latest
meow-1.5.0.0.20241213.104034.tar (.sig), 2024-Dec-13, 450 KiB
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Website
https://www.github.com/DogLooksGood/meow
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1. Introduction

Less is more

Meow is yet another modal editing mode for Emacs.

Meow aims to blend modal editing into Emacs with minimal interference with its original key-bindings, avoiding most of the hassle introduced by key-binding conflicts. This leads to lower necessary configuration and better integration. More is achieved with fewer commands to remember.

Key features compared to existing solutions:

  • Minimal configuration – build your own modal editing system
  • No third-party dependencies (try it without touching your configuration)
  • Doesn't occupy too many keys
    • Much easier to remember for people trying modal editing
    • More keys available for your own key-bindings
    • Most of the time, you don't even need to hold shift!
  • Lightning fast (unlike Evil)
  • Minimizes modifier usage (e.g. SPC x f for C-x C-f) inspired by god-mode
  • Better workflow for kmacro application at multiple locations
  • Interactive selection manipulation and expansion inspired by avy
  • Selection as top-tier object, and keybindings built around selection
  • Compatible with the vanilla Emacs keymap (or any other keymap from any package)
  • Effortless uniform keymaps across modes
  • Key-binding conflict handling made easy

2. Community

Please feel free to ask questions and share ideas at

3. Documents

Get started - Installation and configuration

Tutorial - Learn Meow in 15 minutes

FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

Commands - Documentation for commands

Customizations - Helper functions and variables

Explanation - Ideas and concepts behind Meow

Changelog - Changes, releases, and news

4. License

Licensed under GPLv3.

Old versions

meow-1.5.0.0.20241211.74417.tar.lz2024-Dec-1177.9 KiB
meow-1.5.0.0.20241206.92210.tar.lz2024-Dec-0677.8 KiB
meow-1.5.0.0.20241201.193527.tar.lz2024-Dec-0177.8 KiB
meow-1.5.0.0.20241130.102626.tar.lz2024-Nov-3077.2 KiB
meow-1.5.0.0.20241110.143155.tar.lz2024-Nov-1076.8 KiB
meow-1.5.0.0.20241031.121311.tar.lz2024-Oct-3176.5 KiB
meow-1.4.5.0.20241019.210631.tar.lz2024-Oct-2076.0 KiB
meow-1.4.4.0.20240209.172357.tar.lz2024-Feb-0972.6 KiB
meow-1.4.3.0.20230821.154918.tar.lz2023-Aug-2170.2 KiB
meow-1.4.2.0.20230515.5217.tar.lz2023-May-1569.9 KiB

News

Changelog

1.5.0 (2024-10-20)

Features
  • Add meow-pop-to-mark and meow-unpop-to-mark
  • #644 Add meow(-backward)-kill-{word,symbol}
  • #691 Add options for selecting after meow-insert and meow-append
  • #609 Allow custom delete-region, insert functions
Enhancements
  • #650 Add beacon fake cursors for symbols
  • #580 Add shim for magit-blame-mode
  • #639 Add missing command in meow-shims of wgrep
  • #581 Add beacon remap for meow-change-save
  • #571 Clarify selection expansion by word motion
  • #637 Add a shim for Macrostep
  • meow-shims: add shim for ddskk (meow-prev)
  • Fix SPC SPC in motion state
Bugs fixed
  • Fix meow-line behavior in term, eshell, etc
  • Fix duplicated fake cursors in beacon backward line
  • Don't reset overwrite mode when enter insert state
  • #646 make meow-minibuffer-quit compatible with (setq icomplete-in-buffer t)

1.4.5 (2024-02-11)

Bugs fixed
  • #557 Fix the shim code for wdired.
  • #546 Fix meow-back-symbol that unconditionally reverse direction.
  • #545 Fix position hint before tabs with width 2.
  • #539 Fix beacon change with consecutive characters.
  • #373 Do not cancel selection when entering beacon mode.
  • #514 Fix meow-esc in emacsclient -t.
Enhancements
  • #517 Consider local keybindings when moving commands for the Motion state.
  • #512 Add shim for realgud.
  • #503 Add shim for sly.

1.4.4 (2023-08-23)

Bugs fixed
  • Fix keypad command display priority
  • Fix global mode initialization, which causes both normal and motion are enabled

1.4.3 (2023-07-11)

Bugs fixed
  • #223 Fix the complete behavior in meow-open-above when tab-always-indent is set to 'complete.
  • #290 Clean up beacon overlays on mode diasbling.
  • #318 Skip string-fence syntax class in meow--{inner,bounds}-of-string
  • #327 Fix two minore issue with cursor updating.
  • Fix the order of beacons for meow-search.
  • Fix meow-line mark bug.
  • Fix literal key pad bug.
  • Fix meow-goto-line when there's no region available.
Enhancements
  • Add a variable meow-keypad-self-insert-undefined, it controls whether to insert a key when it's undefined in keypad.
  • Add keyboard layouts for Colemak-DH #284, FWYR #326,
  • #416 Add visual-line versions of some Meow operations.
Breaking Changes
  • #209 Make meow-keypad-start-keys an association list to enhance customizability. See CUSTOMIZATIONS for more details.
  • meow-quit uses quit-window instead of delete-window.

1.4.2 (2022-03-13)

Bugs fixed
  • #163 Fix using command with Meta key bindings in BEACON state.
Enhancements
  • Update the oldest supported Emacs version to 27.1.
  • #204 Allow using keypad in BEACON state. ... ...