Issues with evil single line movement/editing

[noctuid]

Followup from #218

Thanks a lot. It is working much better now. I still have some minor issues though:

• word word word<esc>bbcw<esc>wdw - first cw works, second deletes everything (I can only reproduce in zsh or pi for some reason, not bash)
• Commands like evil-beginning-of-line don't respect prompt boundaries (e.g. will enter the prompt text in bash or zsh, then i will move the point to after the prompt). I have also tried binding the keys I use to send home/end or c-a/c-e to the terminal, which works in insert state but not normal state when evil-ghostel-mode is enabled (have to bind it to enter insert and send)
• I am still seeing some very weird edge cases with operators sometimes affecting the wrong text, will update if I can give reliable reproduction steps

[dakra]

You want to try #250 ?

For the key-binding problem in normal mode there is now evil-ghostel-send-and-follow that you should use to send keys when using evil in normal mode.

[noctuid]

In zsh and pi word word word<esc>bbcw no longer works. It just enters insert and moves the point either to the beginning (zsh) or end (pi) of the prompt. This only happens the first time in pi (2nd time cw works) and not always in zsh. I'm also have some other strange issues where e.g. w no longer works and says it's at the end even though there is text after, and dw won't delete the last word either.

[milanglacier]

I personally feel that using Evil mode motions within Emacs+terminal buffer is unnecessarily complex.

Because a terminal buffer has a a lot of difference from a standard text buffer, applying vim-style text operations there can feel very brittle and hackisj.

Consequently, I prefer to rely on the shell's native Vim mode for text manipulation, as modern shells like Zsh and Nushell come fully equipped with this functionality.

[noctuid]

applying vim-style text operations there can feel very brittle and hackisj

Everything basic I use works fine in vterm, and even some very complex things like operators+avy work without issues. You can call it a hack, but it definitely doesn't feel like a hack.

Consequently, I prefer to rely on the shell's native Vim mode for text manipulation, as modern shells like Zsh and Nushell come fully equipped with this functionality.

I have vim keybindings enabled in zsh too. It's terrible compared to evil, and passing all these keys through the terminal just to use zsh vim mode or having a key to toggle that behavior would be way too much friction for me. A large part of the benefit of running terminals in emacs is to be able to treat them as normal emacs buffers. Yes, emacs scrollback, window management, current directory integration, etc. are the more useful things I think. And if I'm going to be writing multiple paragraphs, I'm going to use a separate buffer anyway, but I don't think there's any reason not to support single line editing with evil, especially given it's currently pretty close to working. It feels more like a hack/separate application if that doesn't work.