Keypad: Translate "x b" to "C-x b" instead of "C-x C-b"

[pjones]

I'm trying to make meow's keypad/leader feel more like vanilla Emacs. The one place I'm stuck is getting SPC x b to translate to C-x b instead of C-x C-b. I feel like this is more natural than SPC x SPC b.

As far as I can tell there's no meow-keypad-*-prefix variable to control this. So I've tried replacing the "x" mapping in the leader keymap:

(defvar-keymap pjones:ctl-x-map
  :doc "C-x map with some things moved around."
  :parent ctl-x-map
  "C-b" (keymap-lookup ctl-x-map "b")
  "b" (keymap-lookup ctl-x-map "C-b"))

(meow-leader-define-key
 (cons "x" pjones:ctl-x-map))

However, this doesn't seem to work. I'm sure there's a better way to achieve my goal and would love suggestions.

Thanks!

[DogLooksGood]

Hey, I guess you are looking for this.

(setq meow-keypad-leader-dispatch "C-x")

This will use ctl-x-map as the leader map.

SPC b => C-x b (through leader dispatching)
SPC x b => C-x C-b (through normal keypad dispatching)

This is a good solution if you prefer built key bindings instead of building your own C-c <letter> keymap.

[pjones]

Thank you for the response.

I'm not sure if that is what I want. I prefer having easy access to C-c bindings. It just feels wasteful to bind C-c b to a command that is already on C-x b. I like the idea of using SPC x b since it maps to my muscle memory for C-x b.

[DogLooksGood]

It doesn't work like that. meow-keypad-leader-dispatch decides how SPC <letter> is handled.

[pjones]

I'm obviously off the beaten path since nobody else has asked for this. I'm also quite confused.

If meow-keypad-leader-dispatch is nil then, from what I understand, SPC <letter> should come from mode-specific-map via meow-keymap-alist. But I can't seem to get SPC x to map to anything other than C-x. Here's what I've tried:

(setopt meow-keypad-leader-dispatch nil)

;; Try via the global map:
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c x") 'switch-to-buffer)

;; Does it need a control prefix?
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c C-x") 'switch-to-buffer)

;; Go directly to the keymap:
(define-key mode-specific-map (kbd "x") 'switch-to-buffer)

;; Try again with a control prefix:
(define-key mode-specific-map (kbd "C-x") 'switch-to-buffer)

In all cases SPC x continues to map to C-x.

It seems that either leader or keypad mode has a special relationship with the x key that I've not been able to figure out thus far.

[DogLooksGood]

This behavior is configured via meow-keypad-start-keys.

[pjones]

This is exactly what I wanted! Thank you!

Removing ?x from that list allows me to use the x binding via meow-leader-define-key.

Thanks again.