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I want to unbind some keys in the org agenda display with use-package. I did the following:

 (use-package org
 :ensure t
 :pin gnu
 :config
 (define-key org-agenda-mode-map (kbd "<C-S-right>") nil)
 (define-key org-agenda-mode-map (kbd "<C-S-left>") nil)
 (define-key org-agenda-mode-map (kbd "<C-S-up>") nil)
 (define-key org-agenda-mode-map (kbd "<C-S-down>") nil))

However, this does not work. I get the message Error (use-package): org/:config: Symbol’s value as variable is void: org-agenda-mode-map. So why does this fail and what is the trick to get this working?

2 Answers 2

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I can reproduce the error. Basically you need to load org-agenda for org-agenda-mode-map to be available. You can modify your config a few different ways to fix it.

 (use-package org
 :ensure t
 :pin gnu
 :config
 (require 'org-agenda)
 (define-key org-agenda-mode-map (kbd "<C-S-right>") nil)
 (define-key org-agenda-mode-map (kbd "<C-S-left>") nil)
 (define-key org-agenda-mode-map (kbd "<C-S-up>") nil)
 (define-key org-agenda-mode-map (kbd "<C-S-down>") nil))

The following is another equivalent option.

 (use-package org
   :config
   (use-package org-agenda
     :ensure nil
     :bind
     (:map org-agenda-mode-map
      ("<C-S-right>" . nil)
      ("<C-S-left>" . nil)
      ("<C-S-up>" . nil)
      ("<C-S-down>" . nil))))

You can also do something like :after org and use a separate use-package org-agenda block.

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Thanks to the answer by Swarnendu Biswas I realised, that it is a bit convoluted to have the key-(un-)bindings for the agenda within the use-package block. I now settled with the following solution:

(add-hook 'org-agenda-mode-hook
  '(lambda ()
     (define-key org-agenda-mode-map (kbd "<C-S-right>") nil)
     (define-key org-agenda-mode-map (kbd "<C-S-left>") nil)
     (define-key org-agenda-mode-map (kbd "<C-S-up>") nil)
     (define-key org-agenda-mode-map (kbd "<C-S-down>") nil)
     )
)

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