How to exit holy mode and get back to evil mode spacemacs?

Question

I had to get into customize-mode to try something out and I am stuck in holy mode and don't have way to get out of it. Is there a way to get back to evil mode once you have entered holy mode?

M-m t E-h seems to work, but is there are better way?

Answer 1

The easiest way is M-x evil-exit-emacs-state (or sometimes with C-z)

Answer 2

The default keybinding to toggle holy-mode in Spacemacs is M-m t E e (or SPC t E e when in evil-mode).

If you need to do this a lot, you can of course bind the function holy-mode to a shorter sequence of keys, using global-set-key (put this in your .spacemacs file):

(global-set-key (kbd "<f9>") 'holy-mode) ; toggle holy-mode using the <f9> key

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You can also switch out of the evil-emacs-state using C-z. When I try this in customize-mode it switches from the (blue cursor) Emacs-keybindings to the (yellow cursor) Spacemacs/vim normal mode bindings.