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Following the advice of Mastering Emacs I'm trying to use the project.el package. My problem is that C-x p isn't bound to the prefix keymap and I can't figure out how to bind it correctly.

I'm pretty sure I'm trying to get this part of the package to load: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/progmodes/project.el#L618

I've tried this:

(use-package project
  :bind-keymap ("C-x p" . project-prefix-map))

but I get a Wrong type argument: sequencep

I've tried bind-key but I don't know what to put in for the COMMAND argument so I tried this:

(bind-key "C-x p" project-prefix-map)

which is also wrong.

I'm running Emacs on MacOS. The Emacs version is GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin19.6.0, NS appkit-1894.60 Version 10.15.7 (Build 19H15)) installed using macports.

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    All you have to do is uncomment line 639, the line that reads ;;;###autoload (define-key ctl-x-map "p" project-prefix-map): just get rid of the three semicolons and then reload project.el.
    – NickD
    Feb 25, 2021 at 21:04
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    I'm not sure editing a core library is the way to go but I can copy the code and make the map work that way.
    – afrosteve
    Feb 25, 2021 at 22:49
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    You can just add the (define-key ctl-x-map "p" project-prefix-map) to your init file anywhere after you (require 'project) instead of changing the file.
    – NickD
    Feb 26, 2021 at 2:07
  • Cool, I will try that. Thank you!
    – afrosteve
    Feb 26, 2021 at 15:32
  • To close the loop adding the key-map directly in the init file fixed the problem. I also found that upgrading the project.el package fixes it.
    – afrosteve
    Mar 3, 2021 at 16:07

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I found that upgrading the project.el package to 0.5.3 fixes the binding problem.

To do this I first had to fix the GNU TLS algorithm priority as described in this Emacs Stack Exchange answer. Once this was added I could successfully load the GNU ELPA package list and upgrade to the latest project.el package.

With the 0.5.3 version I can use (require 'project) or use-package to load project and get the key map bound correctly.

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