custom-keymap

This Emacs package allows users to maintain keybindings in the customisation variable custom-keymap-list. The keybindings are activated in the globalised minor mode custom-keymap-mode.

You can use customize-variable with custom-keymap-list to edit your key bindings. Then they will be presented in a conveniently readable and editable way. custom-keymap-list is an assoc list of key sequences and commands (represented as there symbols). Customisations of this list will immediately become active if global-custom-keymap-mode is enabled.

So you can add this line to your .emacs initialisation file to automatically activate your bindings every time you start emacs:

(global-custom-keymap-mode 1)

After some time custom-keymap-list might grow and become unorganised. Therefore, two auxiliary commands are provided to sort the list on commands resp. key sequences:

• custom-keymap-sort-on-commands
• custom-keymap-sort-on-keysequences

You may find it more convenient to add and delete entries using these commands:

• custom-keymap-add

  prompts for a key sequence and warns you in case the key sequence is already bound to a function. You can then decide to select another key sequence. Next the command prompts for a command, the default being the symbol at point. If not aborted during the prompts a pair is built from user input and added to custom-keymap-list. The new setting is activated and saved to the initialisation file.

• custom-keymap-delete

  prompts for a command with the default set to the symbol at point. All entries for this command are deleted from custom-keymap-list. The new setting is activated and saved to the initialisation file.