Keyset

A small library for structuring key bindings.

This library provides:

• abstraction of key sequence
• changing key sequence by the layout

Setup

Add following code to your init.el.

(require 'keyset)

Usage

First, you define abstract key sequences, and then use them by define-key.

(keyset-defkey :next "n")
(keyset-defkey :next-line '(:C :next))

;; This is equivalent to (define-key any-map (kbd "C-n") 'next-line)
(define-key any-map (keyset-key :next-line) 'next-line)

Layout

In keyset, you can define different key sequence for each layout.

For example, if you want to define key sequence for default layout and dvorak layout, you will use &rest parameter of keyset-defkey, and change keyset-layout to the layout that you want to use.

(keyset-defkey :vim-next-line "j" :dvorak "h")

(setq keyset-layout :dvorak)

;; This is equivalent to (define-key any-map (kbd "h") 'next-line)
(define-key any-map (keyset-key :vim-next-line) 'next-line)

Comparison of keyset-key and kbd

keyset-key	kbd
(keyset-key "abc")	(kbd "abc")
(keyset-key :C "a")	(kbd "C-a")
(keyset-key 'f11)	(kbd "<f11>")