How can I add a new colon-command to Evil?

Question

evil-mode introduces vim-style colon commands (such as :wq to save and close).

I have a few commands (such as kill-buffer, org-babel-tangle) that I'd like to be able to run through this instead of the keybindings they currently have.

How can I add colon-commands like :k for kill-buffer and :tangle for org-babel-tangle?

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 27 '15 at 18:13

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The official way of doing this is demonstrated in evil-maps.el.

Therefore, creating a new ex command is very simple:

(evil-ex-define-cmd "b[utterfly]" 'butterfly)

You'll want to either use this after enabling Evil or alternatively after loading the respective file:

(eval-after-load 'evil-ex
  '(evil-ex-define-cmd "b[utterfly]" 'butterfly))

Doing this will modify evil-ex-commands appropriately.

answered Mar 27 '15 at 18:13

wasamasa

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Excellent! I had tried finding that but didn't succeed (obviously) – J David Smith Mar 27 '15 at 18:37
_I got that reference!_ – PythonNut Aug 04 '15 at 15:25

How can I add a new colon-command to Evil?

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