This is a new (and potentially buggy) plugin and I am an elisp newb -- any advice or contributions would be appreciated!

Snipe is a marriage of vim-sneak and vim-seek but for evil-mode on Emacs.

Put simply, evil-snipe is f/F/t/T on steroids. It can be configured to accept N characters, but by default will accept 2.

Evil-snipe can be installed from MELPA, via M-x package-install RET evil-snipe

Then, to enable globally, add the following to ~/.emacs:

(require 'evil-snipe)
(global-evil-snipe-mode 1)

;; Optional!
(evil-snipe-replace-evil) ;; replaces evil-mode's f/F/t/T/;/, with snipe
(evil-snipe-enable-nN)    ;; enable repeating with n/N (not implemented)

;; not necessary if using (evil-snipe-replace-evil)
(evil-snipe-enable-sS)    ;; enable repeating with s/S

<-- animated screenshot here soon -->

• s/S
  • |the abacus is => sab => the |abacus is
  • the abacus| is => Sab => the |abacus is
• z/Z = inclusive, x/X = exclusive
  • |the abacus is => dzab => |acus is
  • the abacus| is => dZab => the | is
  • |the abacus is => dxab => |abacus is
  • the abacus| is => dXab => the ab| is
• Snipe is always literal: s\* jumps to a literal \*
• s<Enter>, S<Enter> (reverse), ; and , (reverse) jumps to the next match. Note: ; and , should still work directly after sniping even if you have rebound them.
• Repeating with s/S can be enabled, see (evil-snipe-enable-sS).
• Backspace to undo characters
• TAB in the snipe prompt increments N on the fly. e.g. s<tab><tab>goal
• Highlight matches if evil-snipe-enable-highlight
• Incrementally highlight (as you type) if evil-snipe-enable-incremental-highlight
• Change scope of searches with evil-snipe-scope
• Change scope of searches while repeating with evil-snipe-repeat-scope (separate from evil-snipe-scope)
• Change what the count prefix means to snipe with evil-snipe-count-scope
  • if nil, treat COUNT as default in vim: times-to-repeat
  • if 'letters, accept COUNT characters
  • if 'vertical, scope is column bound (vertical scoping)
• Use (evil-snipe-replace-evil) to replace evil-mode's f/F/t/T/;/, with snipe. Snipe implements clever-f functionality as well.

• Vertical-scoping: 5shi will jump to the next occurance of 'hi' that is within 5 columns of the cursor on any following line.
• r/R operators for targeting remote objects (e.g. driwhi = delete remote inner word 'hi'), then return to starting point
• p/P operators that do what r/R does, but stays in the modified location.
• r/R/p/P text-objects, so: dirwo will delete the next inner word containing wo. dorwo will target the next OUTER word.
• Repeating with n/N?

• Sniping in visual mode:

  (evil-define-key 'visual evil-snipe-mode-map "z" 'evil-snipe-f)
  (evil-define-key 'visual evil-snipe-mode-map "Z" 'evil-snipe-F)

• Snipe disables evil-mode's substitute commands (s/S). To prevent this, set evil-snipe-auto-disable-substitute to nil (before evil-snipe is loaded).

• To change the highlight colors, configure: evil-snipe-first-match-face and evil-snipe-matches-face

• Disable N> prompt when sniping by setting evil-snipe-show-prompt to nil

(setq evil-snipe-scope 'line)
(setq evil-snipe-repeat-scope 'whole-line)
(setq evil-snipe-count-scope nil)
(setq evil-snipe-search-highlight nil)
(setq evil-snipe-search-incremental-highlight nil)
(setq evil-snipe-enable-half-cursor nil)

(evil-snipe-enable-sS)

;; or 'buffer, 'whole-visible or 'whole-buffer
(setq evil-snipe-scope 'visible)
(setq evil-snipe-repeat-scope 'whole-visible)

(setq evil-snipe-count-scope 'vertical)  ;; not implemented yet
(setq evil-snipe-enable-highlight t)
(setq evil-snipe-enable-incremental-highlight t)
(setq evil-snipe-enable-half-cursor nil)

• evil-surround does not conflict with evil-snipe. Surround uses s/S in visual mode and s in operator mode. Snipe uses s/S in normal mode and z/Z/x/X in operator mode.
• evil-space needs more investigating.

Evil-snipe was inspired by:

• vim-seek
• vim-sneak
• evil-sneak