In this video I show off the pieces of Emacs Lisp I use to set the initial evil-mode states in various modes and to update keybindings therein. Both of these became very important (at least for me) with the introduction of evil-motion-state, which is a bit of a hybrid between evil-emacs-state and evil-normal-state. Time stamps: 00:00 Introduction 02:12 Trying evil-define-key 07:13 Changing the initial evil state 09:03 Fixing key definitions with hooks and a macro Website: https://bwestbro.com/