Emacs modes that should be in motion state now end up in normal state about evil HOT 4 CLOSED

Original comment by York Zhao (Bitbucket: york, GitHub: york):

This works now. Thank you very much for the explanation.

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Original comment by Vegard Øye (Bitbucket: epsil, GitHub: epsil):

Ah, I see the problem. Should be fixed in commit bf2f858; I ran some quick tests with the dictionary library (installed with sudo apt-get install dictionary-el), and things seem to behave properly now.

The background for these newfangled bugs is that in order for Evil to work well with "meta-modes" like noweb-mode and MuMaMo (issue #33), Evil should be initialized only //once// in each buffer. Changing the major mode of the buffer should //not// re-initialize Evil. However, when Evil is initialized in a new buffer, the major mode may not have enabled yet (the buffer is still in fundamental-mode). So Evil needs to find a way to postpone parts of its initialization until //after// the buffer itself has been set up. In this case, the postponement was overridden by something else.

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Original comment by York Zhao (Bitbucket: york, GitHub: york):

This works much better now, for example, Info-mode now shows up in Motion State,
however, it's still not working in all the cases, an example being the
dictionary-mode, in my .emacs I have the following:

(setq evil-motion-state-modes
'(apropos-mode
Buffer-menu-mode
calendar-mode
command-history-mode
compilation-mode
help-mode
Info-mode
speedbar-mode
view-mode
undo-tree-visualizer-mode
;; These mode I want them to be in motion state
dictionary-mode
browse-kill-ring-mode))

(require 'evil)
(evil-mode 1)

I have confirmed that dictionary-mode' is in evil-motion-state-modes' by "C-h
v". But the problem is that dictionary-mode' still shows up in Normal State. In contrary, I have set browse-kill-ring-mode' to be in Motion State as well which
works correctly, that is, it shows up in Motion State. I have no idea why
browse-kill-ring-mode' works but not dictionary-mode'.

By the way, `dictionary-mode' always worked for me in Motion State.

I'm sorry for the format, but I don't know why the format gets changed and how to
keep the format as what I had entered.

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Original comment by Vegard Øye (Bitbucket: epsil, GitHub: epsil):

Should be fixed in commit 31ffed6.

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