Trying to remap s from evil-snipe to avy-goto-char-timer

[jdn06]

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What is your question?

I simply tried to remap the s key in normal mode from evil-snipe to avy-goto-char-timer. But with something simple like in config.el :
(map! :n "s" #'avy-goto-char-timer :override)
or, inspired from Discourse :
(map! :map 'override "s" #'avy-goto-char-timer)
evil-snipe keeps precedence.
I tried a few things with hooks or after! but it failed.
The only way I had a result was to add in package.el:
(package! evil-snipe :disable t)
It seems a little violent. I am sure there is a better way.

System information

https://pastebin.com/U8r5WLB3

[jdn06]

OK I think I found it:
(bind-key* "s" 'avy-goto-char-timer)
Sorry for the noise…

[jdn06]

Actually it is not a good solution. I cannot type anymore the s letter in insertion mode!
I am still interested by some help on this.

[hlissner]

Short answer

What you need to do is to unbind the s from evil-snipe-local-mode-map (in normal and motion states) to yield to keybinds in keymaps with lower precedence.

;;; add to $DOOMDIR/config.el
(map! :after evil-snipe
      :map evil-snipe-local-mode-map
      :nm "s" nil)

(map! :n "s" #'avy-goto-char-timer)

Long answer

1. With (map! :map 'override "s" #'avy-goto-char-timer), the issue is that you quoted the override. The bind-key* snippet you eventually landed on is equivalent to (map! :map override "s" #'avy-goto-char-timer). But you don't want this either, because this will override s everywhere because the override map has the highest precedence of (almost) all keymaps.

2. avy-goto-char-timer is already on gs/. There are many avy commands on gs, in fact.

3. About (map! :n "s" #'avy-goto-char-timer :override), there is no :override keyword, so that's ignored, and the keybind is working, it's just overshadowed by a keybinding on a keymap with higher precedence (evil-snipe's, in this case).

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As a rule of thumb, the order of keymap precedence is (greatly simplified):

• The general.el package's override keymap (map! :map override :n "s" #'avy-goto-char-timer)
• Minor mode keymaps (map! :map evil-snipe-local-mode-map :n "s" #'avy-goto-char-timer)
• Global map (map! :n "s" #'avy-goto-char-timer)

The quickest way to determine where a key is bound is C-h k followed by the key. So C-h k s will show something like:

Which says it's bound on evil-snipe-local-mode-map. So you either need to override that (as I've done in the short answer above), or turn off/disable evil-snipe. E.g.

(remove-hook 'doom-first-input-hook #'evil-snipe-mode)
;; OR
(package! evil-snipe :disable t)

[jdn06]

Thank you for your very clear answer and for all the great work on this!