Emacs >= 27.1
Meow is available on Melpa, you can install it with your favorite package manager.
If you want to give it a try without touching your configuration.
git clone https://github.com/meow-edit/meow.git /path/to/meow
cd /path/to/meow
emacs -q -L . -l meow.elContinue with the next steps.
Meow is designed to work as a layer on top of the default key
bindings. For example, command meow-kill can be used to kill a
selection, it works by simulating the keys that is specified by
variable meow--kbd-kill-region, which is C-w by default. In this way,
it works even when an alternative package is introduced to provide an
enhanced version of kill-region. But if you bind a command with
different behavior on C-w, meow-kill will not work as expected. In
this case, you have to modify the variable meow--kbd-kill-region to
match the rules. The same applies to other meow-* commands.
Meow has no default command layout. You can write your own setup function from scratch or pick one from below as your starting point.
Add the following code to your configuration, assuming that your function to set
up bindings is called meow-setup:
<define your meow-setup>
(require 'meow)
(meow-setup)
(meow-global-mode 1)NOTE: You don’t need to do this if you use the Doom module, as it takes care of
loading and enabling Meow. In addition the module defines +meow--setup-*
functions for all the example layouts included here, so that passing the
corresponding module flag is enough to set up those layouts. (If you want to use
a custom layout, you will need to define your own setup function and call it in
your configuration.)
Now you can open the tutorial with M-x meow-tutor.
If everything works as expected, now you can open the cheatsheet with SPC ?.
The keyboard layout in the cheatsheet is customizable. By default, it’s the ANSI layout, but the ISO layout is also supported.
(setq meow-cheatsheet-physical-layout meow-cheatsheet-physical-layout-ansi)