`define-key helm-map` works for C-i but not M-i

[Brett Wines]

Hi, there,

Thanks in advance for your help! I'm relatively new to emacs so if you have an tips for how I can debug this kind of thing on my own in the future I'd love to hear your input :)

I have the following code in my .spacemacs file:

  (global-set-key (kbd "C-i") 'delete-backward-char)
  (global-set-key (kbd "M-i") 'subword-backward-kill)
  (global-set-key (kbd "M-I") 'backward-kill-sexp)

When I activate Helm with C-x C-f, I'd like to use M-i, but it doesn't behave as I would expect (more on that below), presumably because Helm has ascribed it a binding it for its own purposes. I attempted to override that as follows:

  (with-eval-after-load 'helm
    (define-key helm-map (kbd "C-i") 'delete-backward-char)  ;; this works
    (define-key helm-map (kbd "M-i") 'subword-backward-kill)) ;; this doesn't work

Interestingly, C-i behaves as I would expect but M-i does not; it prints some output that looks like it would come from ls -l or something.

I tried assigning C-i to 'subword-backward-kill and it does indeed execute that commfand, so the issue is not with the function to execute but rather the keystroke.

Does anyone have thoughts on how I can go about binding M-i? Thank you so much!

Sincerely,

Brett

P.S. hope everybody is managing to stay healthy

[Thierry Volpiatto]

'Brett Wines' via emacs-helm <emacs...@googlegroups.com> writes:

> When I activate Helm with C-x C-f, I'd like to use M-i, but it doesn't
> behave as I would expect

See helm-map as a global helm map, all sources have their own keymap.
For C-x C-f (helm-find-files) the map is `helm-find-files-map` and `M-i`
is bound to `helm-ff-properties-persistent`, your C-i binding is working
because it is not in use in `helm-find-files-map`.
More generally in Emacs, all the specific mode maps override the global map.

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[Brett Wines]

thank you so much for your help! Much appreciated :)

Brett

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