Emacs Key Leader Keys

leaderkeyideas.md

Obviously the normal ones are: Ctrl-x, Ctrl-u

Alt can be a good leader prefix. Alt-x is emacs-extended-command. Alt-m is used by spacemacs.

Visual Studio has Ctrl-k, Ctrl-e, but IMO, they are not good. Those are very "hot" keys that are used all the time

Tmux has Ctrl-b, which is almost always rebound to Ctrl-a for memory compatibility with Screen's Ctrl-a. It's also not good IMO, but Tmux is used very often that it is reasonable to include Ctrl-a as a leader key.

One I've started playing with is Ctrl-Insert - it has almost no conflicts. There are also Ctrl-Numlock and Ctrl-Scrolllock

leaderkeys.el

(use-package general
  :ensure t
  :config
  ;; allow for shorter bindings -- e.g., just using things like nmap alone without general-* prefix
  (general-evil-setup t)

  ;; To automatically prevent Key sequence starts with a non-prefix key errors without the need to
  ;; explicitly unbind non-prefix keys, you can add (general-auto-unbind-keys) to your configuration
  ;; file. This will advise define-key to unbind any bound subsequence of the KEY. Currently, this
  ;; will only have an effect for general.el key definers. The advice can later be removed with
  ;; (general-auto-unbind-keys t).
  (general-auto-unbind-keys)


  (general-create-definer jds/leader-def
    :states '(normal visual motion emacs insert)
    :keymaps 'override
    :prefix "SPC"
    :global-prefix "C-SPC")
  (general-create-definer jds/sub-leader-def
    :states '(normal visual motion emacs)
    :keymaps 'override
    :prefix ","
    :global-prefix "C-,")
  (general-create-definer jds/localleader-def
    :states '(normal visual motion emacs)
    :keymaps 'override
    :prefix "m"
    ;; :global-prefix "C-m"
    )
  (general-create-definer jds/sub-localleader-def
    :states '(normal visual motion emacs)
    :keymaps 'override
    :prefix "\\"
    :global-prefix "C-\\"))