Evil editing states

Each states allows keys to have different behaviour, helping minimise the cognitive load and quickly building muscle memory for very powerful actions.

Evil state	Description
normal	manipulating and navigating existing text (default state)
insert	writing new text
visual	selecting regions of text
iedit	edit multiple regions simultaneously
lisp	structural editing for Clojure & Lisp style languages (e.g. slurp, barf)

First get familiar with normal, insert and visual states. Then when you are comfortable, move on to iedit and lisp states.

Normal state by default

Evil normal state should be used most of the time, unless you are writing code or creating lots of text.

Important key bindings

v opens the visual state and allows you to selects text

i, I, a, A, o , O all open insert state and allows you to type new text

Esc or f d returns to Normal mode for text manipulation and leader / local leader commands

++coma++ menu contains the major mode (e.g. Clojure) specific commands, organised mnemonically

Space s e opens iedit and selects all matching instances of the highlighted text for editing

Space k opens Lisp state, allowing you to do structural editing

Refactor code tools

The Refactor section has further editing techniques and Clojure specific refactoring tools.