Evil Mode - gq{motion}

Hey! I've switched to Emacs with Evil Mode and I've been using it for 3 weeks but I am missing a very important feature (at least for me it is important). In vim you can reformat text with "gq{motion}" to format lines. It uses external programs to do so. However in Evil Mode I cannot seem to find its equivalent. Is there any solution to that? I Googled the problem but couldn't find the solution there either. Thank you!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34002435/autopep8-reformat-a-region-in-emacs-spacemacs Maybe that's useful. I don't use Evil, so I don't know.

I run a function like this: ```elisp (defun cleanup-buffer-untabify () "Perform a bunch of operations on the whitespace content of a buffer and untabify buffer." (interactive) (indent-buffer) (untabify-buffer) (delete-trailing-whitespace)) ``` Bind it to whatever you want. If you want tabs instead of spaces: instead of `untabify-buffer` use `tabify-buffer`. But frankly, you could just have `indent-buffer` and `delete-trailing-whitespace` and that would do as well. EDIT: Sorry didn't realise that `indent-buffer` was custom as well, here it is: ```elisp (defun indent-buffer () "Fix indentation." (interactive) (indent-region (point-min) (point-max))) ```

I just select my region and press tab in visual-state, maybe that's different?

`gq` should already be supported by default w/ Evil. It looks like it only *fills* by default which is Emacs parlance (or does it come from somewhere else? I've only saw it used in Emacs contexts) for wrapping content under a specified width, see `C-h v fill-column`. In your case, hopefully Evil uses `fill-paragraph-function` so you only need to customize it to the format function you want in the modes you want (untested)

do you know which function is been called when you do tab?

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Sorry no. I'm new to Emacs. I'm using evil and evil-collection. How do I check?

C-h k and then you press the key, it will tell you what function is being called

`indent-for-tab-command`

I use Doom Emacs, which relies on [format-all](https://github.com/lassik/emacs-format-all-the-code) package for formatting. You could make it into an Evil operator like this: (evil-define-operator evil-format (beg end) "Format text." :move-point nil :type line (save-excursion (save-restriction (narrow-to-region beg end) (format-all-buffer) ) ) ) (evil-global-set-key 'normal "gq" #'evil-format)

>In your case, hopefully Evil uses `fill-paragraph-function` Just tried it. The `evil-fill` operator (actually, Emacs command) calls `fill-region`, which, apparently, can't be customized like this.