Evil and org-mode keybinding 't' conflict

Question

In Spacemacs with evil and org-mode, the letter 't' is assigned to two functions:

• org-todo (don't need this because I use shift-arrow to cycle through todo states)
• evil-find-char-to (I need this)

When in org-mode, 't' only works for org-todo. How to assign 't' to only evil-find-char-to?

This solution by Bernardo Brik worked for Daniel Yang:

(add-hook 'org-mode-hook ((define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "t") 'evil-find-char-to)))

But when I try it:

add-hook: Invalid function: (define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "t") (quote evil-find-char-to))

I am using Emacs 25.2.1 with Evil Spacemacs and org-mode on Linux.

Answer 1

Hooks are functions, so for the above to work you'd need to wrap your code into an anonymous function instead of an extra set of parens:

(add-hook 'org-mode-hook (lambda () (define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "t") 'evil-find-char-to)))

I typically use with-eval-after-load for this as it avoids creating the function yourself, provided you know what the feature is your code has to be loaded after:

(with-eval-after-load 'org
  (define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "t") 'evil-find-char-to))

Answer 2

From the readme of the Org layer at the current tip of the ‘develop’ branch (r#c68fde7bebfb (“Apply conventions to multi-term keybinds”, 2019-04-05)):

If the layer variable =org-want-todo-bindings= is true, the following bindings
are also available.

| Key bindings | Description                         |
|--------------+-------------------------------------|
| ~t~          | Cycle TODO state of current heading |
| ~T~          | Insert new TODO heading             |
| ~M-t~        | Insert new TODO sub-heading         |

I infer from this that t will not be bound to org-todo if org-want-todo-bindings is set to nil. That is the default according to the config.el for that layer.