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I am trying to bind CTRL-B to perform the Evil command :buffers. The reason I am doing this is because I want to scroll through the open buffers with j and k and then press <RET> to make the selection.

What I tried was adding the following code to my configuration file:

;; Switch Evil-mode buffers
(define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "C-B") ":buffers")

The result of reloading this configuration (:eval-buffer) and then pressing CTRL-B leads to:

After 0 kbd macro iterations: Can't find "

How can we bind to an Ex-mode command?

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  • By the way: there's probably a typo you need to fix: there is no evil-mode-map. Do you mean evil-normal-state-map or something along those lines?
    – Dan ♦
    Commented Apr 1, 2016 at 23:38
  • Dan that's right. Thanks. :) I wanted to bind to every mode.
    – user2609980
    Commented Apr 2, 2016 at 13:48

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From the evil source, we can see:

(evil-ex-define-cmd "buffers" 'buffer-menu)

In this case, I'd recommend binding to the command directly, instead of going through the ex interface.

(define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "C-B") #'buffer-menu)

However, if you find that you absolutely must, you can use a keyboard macro:

(define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "C-B") (kbd ":buffers"))
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    Just a note: you don't actually need to consult the source to find the functions for ex commands: there is an evil-ex-commands alist. eg. (cdr (assoc "buffers" evil-ex-commands)) will return the function corresponding to ":buffers".
    – pyrocrasty
    Commented Sep 11, 2017 at 11:58

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