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In my emacs config i wrote:

    (use-package gnus
      :bind (("<f12>" . gnus)
         :map gnus-group-mode-map
         ("q" . gnus-group-suspend)
         ("Q" . gnus-group-exit))
    :config ........)

After i load emacs, f12 works, but "q" and "Q" do not work in gnus buffer. Only when i manually load the same code these keys work.

Could you help me to automatically bound these keys?

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  • I bind keys if i add in :config section: (with-eval-after-load "gnus-group" (bind-key "q" #'gnus-group-suspend gnus-group-mode-map) (bind-key "Q" #'gnus-group-exit gnus-group-mode-map)) ). Is it possible to make it more pleasant with use-package?
    – RCV
    Commented Apr 10, 2017 at 15:43
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    (use-package gnus-group ...)?
    – npostavs
    Commented Apr 13, 2017 at 20:23
  • This is John Wiegley's config for gnus: github.com/jwiegley/dot-emacs/blob/master/dot-gnus.el . Try adapting his code. He uses that (use-package gnus-group ...) and bind-key.
    – Heikki
    Commented Apr 14, 2017 at 9:01

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I think that when use-package is evaluated the gnus-group-mode-map has no value so the key binding is not made.

Refer to https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package/issues/503

The following might work (but you lose the deferred loading)

(use-package gnus
  :init
     (require 'gnus)
  :bind (("<f12>" . gnus)
     :map gnus-group-mode-map
     ("q" . gnus-group-suspend)
     ("Q" . gnus-group-exit)))
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Keyword :map needs to be inside parenthesis. You can have multiple :bind keywords, so it is clearer to separate keys bound to separate modes. This should work:

(use-package gnus
  :bind (("<f12>" . gnus))
  :bind (:map gnus-group-mode-map
              ("q" . gnus-group-suspend)
              ("Q" . gnus-group-exit))
  :config ........)

I did not tried this code but it is based on my functioning elfeed config.

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  • This does not work. According to use-package tutorial one can write like this :bind (("M-s O" . moccur) :map isearch-mode-map ("M-o" . isearch-moccur) ("M-O" . isearch-moccur-all))
    – RCV
    Commented Apr 13, 2017 at 15:36
  • There might be something that you are missing in how gnus works. use-package is a macro and you can use a package called macro-step to explore the generated lisp code github.com/joddie/macrostep . Copy and eval the generated code.
    – Heikki
    Commented Apr 14, 2017 at 4:10

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