How to check the current state in evil mode?

Question

When writing elisp for evil mode, how can you check the currently active evil state?
(normal, visual, insert... etc)

score 11 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 29 '17 at 05:14

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The state can be accessed via evil-state, eg:

(cond
 ((eq evil-state 'visual) (do-something))
 ((eq evil-state 'normal) (do-other-thing))
 ((eq evil-state 'insert) (do-another-thing)))

edited Aug 29 '17 at 05:14

wasamasa

answered Nov 26 '16 at 05:44

ideasman42

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