Recreate spacemacs' ivy/projectile 'SPC P SPC' binding for helm/projectile

Question

I recently switched from ivy to helm in spacemacs as my project search/management package.

In ivy, there is a keybinding for SPC p SPC that does a search for files in the project (by file name). There is a very similar method and binding for helm: helm-projectile-find-file, which is bound to SPC p f. I want to also bind this to SPC p SPC, like in ivy.

My attempt at adding the keybinding, distilled from my .spacemacs is this:

(defun dotspacemacs/user-config ()
  "add user config here"

  ; add ivy-like shortcut
  (spacemacs/set-leader-keys-for-minor-mode 'projectile-mode (kbd "p SPC") "helm-projectile-find-file"))

Unfortunately, when I attempt to invoke the keybinding, it does not exist.

Additional Context / Things I have tried.

I may be binding in the wrong minor mode. I tried it on 'helm-mode at first and that caused errors on startup. 'projectile-mode seems kind of wrong/weird, but I couldn't find a helm + projectile mode to bind on.

The key sequence in my code may be wrong. The spacemacs docs say "use a macro like kbd to determine the key sequence" so that's what I'm trying to do here. (kbd "p SPC") evaluates to ("p "). I have also tried using "p SPC" directly, with no call to kbd, with no luck.

Answer 1

The provided example user-config almost works! Instead of set-leader-keys-for-minor-mode, I did this:

(defun dotspacemacs/user-config ()
  "add user config here"

  ; add ivy-like shortcut
  (spacemacs/set-leader-keys "p SPC" 'helm-projectile-find-file))

This fixes the following issues:

1. (kbd "p SPC") was returning the wrong value.
2. the function was being passed in as a string, instead of a quoted symbol

Finally, this binding is now active globally, not limited to a specific minor mode, like the original configuration was. This ensures it will be active at all times.