Re: Interest in keymap-set + use-package (+ bind-key)?

["Sebastián Monía" <sebastian@sebasmonia.com>]

Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> writes:

> Currently, use-package uses the "legacy" 'define-key' by way of the
> bind-key package. This trips me up sometimes, since the spellings of
> keys are slightly different between 'define-key' and the newer
> 'keymap-set' (I mostly run into this when remapping a command).
>
> Would there be any interest in adding support (somehow) to use-package
> for 'keymap-set' and friends? I'm open to options for the specifics
> here. For example, bind-key is also useful for providing
> 'describe-personal-keybindings'. Maybe we could enhance bind-key to
> optionally work more like 'keymap-set'? That could be with some new
> option, like 'bind-key-use-keymap-set', or some new function, like
> 'keymap-bind-key'[1].
>
> Any thoughts? If this is something others would like, I'd be happy to
> implement this.
>
> [1] This could use a better name, but this name should hopefully
> suffice for discussion purposes.

I just read the NEWS entry about keymap-set, so thanks for that.

And I would say yes, it would be nice if use-package worked just like
the newer functions do.

Wouldn't it make sense to have bind-key use that syntax going forward,
though? Maybe it can't be done without breaking existing code, and
that's why we would need a new keyword?


Regards,
Seb

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