How to utilize SPC as leader key for my own keybinds?

[nomm-dot]

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I like SPC as my leader key and most of Doom's default evil bindings, but I'd also like to use it as a leader key for other "non-Doom" packages. I've done quite a bit of research and come back to this issue a few times in the past, but I haven't found any solutions. Anybody else run into this? Or maybe I missed something obvious?

For example:
defining the following for Denote

  :bind
  ( :map global-map
         ("SPC d n" . denote)

Will produce the following error when reloading config.

Error caused by user's config or system: doom/config.el, (error Key sequence SPC d n starts with non-prefix key SPC)

I've tried using Doom's syntax and other native Emacs syntax, but am unable to avoid this error.

System information

• macOS, NixOS, EndeavourOS
• Emacs 30
• Doom Emacs

[tetov]

Here's some instructions: https://discourse.doomemacs.org/t/what-are-leader-and-localleader-keys/153#binding-new-leader-keys-3

In you cause it would be:

(map! :leader (:prefix ("d" . "debugger") 
                         (:desc "Start (d)enote" "d" #'denote)))

I'm using debugger here as description for the prefix to not override. To make it play nicer with current doomemacs prefixes you could use "n" . "notes" instead.

[nomm-dot]

Sorry, you've confused me a bit. I'm not sure why you'd need to specify debugger since the default for the debugger is "SPC h d d". I don't believe "SPC d" is a mapped to anything by default.

I suppose I just don't understand what you mean by you set the "debugger as description for the prefix to not override"

  (map! :leader
        (:prefix ("d" . "denote")
                 (:desc "(d)enote" "n" #'denote)))

Would that achieve what I'm looking for? I want "SPC d n" to initiate the denote command.

Thanks for the help!

[tetov]

It is for me..

Try it out! You could write something else instead as well.

This is what I have for my own prefix: https://codeberg.org/tetov/doomdir/src/commit/50207ad1d85875bb894e82c15bd500fbd7da2273/config.el#L88

[nomm-dot]

Thanks very much!