meow-insert and move one character forwad

[Inc0n]

Hi, I am coming from evil, is there any default way to enter meow-insert and one character forwad.

[krdzo]

Hi. I did something similar to that myself for meow-appent. It looks like this:

(defun kr-meow-append ()
  "Make `meow-append' behavior similar to evil-append."
  (unless (= (line-end-position) (point))
      (forward-char 1)))
(advice-add 'meow-append :after #'kr-meow-append)

Maybe there is a better way to do this but this works for me.

[DogLooksGood]

I have to explain for this.

meow-insert means insert at the beginning of region, and meow-append means append at the end of region. So when there's no region, insert and append will behave the same. The behavior is expected and reasonable.

It's simple to write your own function to move the cursor when no selection available. BUT, this doesn't get to the root of the problem.

For example, if you write your own meow-append.

Press a, cursor stays

Press a, cursor moves

weird, doesn't it?

In Vim, cursor is located on one character. In Emacs, cursor is located between two characters. (no matter the cursor shape)
In Kakoune, there's always a selection, with minimal width 1, but we can't do this in Emacs.

The only solution is to hack the cursor position, (like Evil does), I don't know what Evil does, but I have implemented one in Meow.

;; Must set before enable `meow-global-mode`
(setq meow-use-cursor-position-hack t
      meow-use-enhanced-selection-effect t)  ;; optional, for visual effect

(meow-global-mode t)

NOT RECOMMENDED. I didn't even mention the feature in document. Since Meow is not Evil, I enjoy simplicity.

[Inc0n]

I think I am starting the see the difference between Evil and Meow now. These are not subtle changes.
I am happy with the explanation so I will close this issue.