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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.

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  • Please ask only one question per question. Thx.
    – Drew
    Aug 31, 2020 at 15:00
  • Ok, I can edit the question to remove the 2 subquestions. I added them as context for what I have tried and what might be wrong.
    – Yourpalal
    Aug 31, 2020 at 15:23
  • Thanks for that. But the question is not clear. "not be achieving anything" and "not working" don't tell us what the problem or question is. To be a useful (acceptable) question here please clarify. Just what behavior do you want to achieve, what did you try, to achieve it, and what behavior did you get instead? A step-by-step recipe starting from emacs -Q is ideal, but any way you can make clear what you're asking will be better than what you have now. Thx.
    – Drew
    Aug 31, 2020 at 15:44
  • Thanks for updating to clarify: the question is about a key binding that doesn't show up.
    – Drew
    Aug 31, 2020 at 18:04
  • @Drew I tried again. The question has always included what I want to do and what I have tried and it still does. What I want to do is described in both the title and the body of the question. I don't understand why I would try to replicate this with emacs -Q. The behaviour I am trying to achieve ties into spacemacs, projectile, and helm, as shown in the question. Without this fairly large and complete environment, the issue would not make any sense.
    – Yourpalal
    Aug 31, 2020 at 18:06

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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.

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