Binding SPC SPC to a command

[zetashift]

I'm wondering how to bind consult-find-file to SPC SPC in meow, when in normal mode.

I'd tried to add a <space> entry in meow-leader-define-key but nothing happened.

[DogLooksGood]

SPC in normal mode brings you to the keypad mode. And in keypad mode, SPC is used as literal prefix. So there's no easy way to bind SPC SPC. You have to add advice to meow-keypad-self-insert command, and check if it's the first SPC in keypad mode.

[zetashift]

Ah damn, my emacs-lisp-fu is way too weak for that, I'll try okamsn route

[okamsn]

What I did was to set Meow to use different map as the leader map, which seems to be working.

(setf meow-keypad-leader-dispatch my-leader-map
      (map-elt meow-keymap-alist 'leader) my-leader-map)

[zetashift]

I have not been able to get this working because of bad elisp, how exactly is my-leader-map defined?

[okamsn]

I have not been able to get this working because of bad elisp, how exactly is my-leader-map defined?

It is just a normal keymap :

;; Bind variable to a non-sparse (as in not from `make-sparse-keymap') empty keymap:
(defvar my-leader-map (make-keymap) "My leader map.")

;; Make Meow use the leader key:
(setf meow-keypad-leader-dispatch my-leader-map
      (map-elt meow-keymap-alist 'leader) my-leader-map)

;; Bind key sequence to a command in the keymap contained by the variable:
(define-key my-leader-map (kbd "<SPC>") #'execute-extended-command)

If I recall correctly, I originally used make-sparse-keymap, but that didn't work for some reason.

In newer Emacs, it looks like you can do

(defvar-keymap my-leader-map2
  :doc "My leader map, again."
  :full t
  "<SPC>" #'execute-extended-command
  ... )

It's probably relevant that I don't have any keybindings with modifiers in them in the first layer of my leader map.

[zetashift]

Sweet, this worked nicely, thank you!