I really love key-chord.el
. It's become an integral part of my workflow, but sometimes I wish I could have them in the minibuffer (for things like evil-search). Specifically, I'd like jj
to exit out of evil-search
and move down a line. Is this possible?
I know I can hack together a command that acts as both a prefix and a command (see this SO question), so I could bind j
to a self inserting command, and jj
to my special command. How would I be able to break the event loop after a specified idle time? I do type jj
once in a blue moon, and I'd still like the flexibility of a timeout.
Is there any other way which I am unaware of to achieve what I want?
EDIT:
Origionally, this question was about the minibuffer in general. key-chord.el
seems to work fine with minibuffer-local-map
. It does not, however, work with isearch-mode-map
. Binding a command to a single regular key like j
does work in isearch. This is what I'm trying to solve.
I have found a solution which manually reproduces the behaviour of key-chord.el.
(defun isearch-exit-chord-worker (&optional arg)
(interactive "p")
(execute-kbd-macro (kbd "<backspace> <return>")))
(defun isearch-exit-chord (arg)
(interactive "p")
(isearch-printing-char)
(unless (fboundp 'smartrep-read-event-loop)
(require 'smartrep))
(run-at-time 0.3 nil 'keyboard-quit)
(condition-case e
(smartrep-read-event-loop
'(("j" . isearch-exit-chord-worker)
("k" . isearch-exit-chord-worker)))
(quit nil)))
;; example bindings
(define-key isearch-mode-map "j" 'isearch-exit-chord)
(define-key isearch-mode-map "k" 'isearch-exit-chord)
This approach actually has several advantages over key-chord.el
.
- It does not use an input method, so you can use a different input method in conjunction with this.
- The first character is shown immediately, and retracted if it is incorrect, while
key-chord.el
only shows it after a delay.
I have found this to be useful:
(defun isearch-enable-key-chord ()
(key-chord-mode 1)
(key-chord-define isearch-mode-map "jj" 'isearch-cancel))
(add-hook 'isearch-mode-hook 'isearch-enable-key-chord)