How to remap keys in the 'space' mode?

[amstaniec]

Discussed in #2844

^{Originally posted by ipstone June 20, 2022}
Hello,
Coming from vim, I usually remap <space>+z to :quit -
is there a way to do so in helix?

I tried to add the following in config.toml , but helix would not accept it:

[keys.space]
z = 'quit'

I tried liek this:

[keys.normal.space]
"space" = ":command_mode"

but that gives me:

❯ hx
Bad config: data did not match any variant of untagged enum KeyTrie for key `keys.normal` at line 25 column 1
Press <ENTER> to continue with default config

[the-mikedavis]

The : is used for typable commands - ones that you can type out in the prompt in helix with :<command-name> and use kebab-case. command_mode is a regular command so you can bind to the command directly like so:

[keys.normal.space]
space = "command_mode"