define-key versus evil-define-key

Thu Sep 18 20:55:51 CEST 2014

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Gordon Gustafson <gordon3.14 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Most importantly, your first example binds "\C-b" in the CURRENT
> BUFFER for ALL MODES, while your second example binds "\C-b" for ALL
> BUFFERS in ONLY THE SPECIFIED MODE (sorry for the caps, don't mean to
> yell :P).

I assumed my intentions (of using it inside a hook function) would be
clear, but that was perhaps a bit presumptuous.

> This probably means that the different methods bind with different
> precedence

Yes, that seems reasonable, but it still doesn’t make it clear whether
it’s preferable to use the local or the auxiliary map.  But, after
thinking about it a bit more, perhaps it’s reasonable to use
evil-define-key for a mode and evil-motion-state-local-map for a
specific buffer?

> On 9/17/14, Nikolai Weibull <now at disu.se> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> What's the preferred way of adding keys to a given mode's map?
>>
>> Is
>>
>> (define-key evil-motion-state-local-map "\C-b"
>> 'calendar-scroll-right-three-months)
>>
>> or
>>
>> (evil-define-key 'motion calendar-mode-map "\C-b"
>> 'calendar-scroll-right-three-months)
>>
>> preferable?
>>
>> (From an ease-of-use perspective, the second is better, as it allows
>> you to easily map more keys, but I'm wondering from a "the right way
>> to do it" perspective.)
>>
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