Evil leader key is getting in the way of describe-key
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patchikin · 2022-02-08 11:10

I am running evil in Emacs, and use the leader key extensively.

I have set Space as `evil-leader` and assigned a key to it as follows:

    (evil-define-key 'normal my-intercept-mode-map (kbd "SPC") 'evil-
send-leader)
    (evil-define-key 'normal 'global (kbd "<leader>a") 'my/foo-bar)

When I run `describe-key` followed by `SPC a`, I would it to take me
to `my/foo-bar`. Instead it takes me to `evil-send-leader`.

How can I have `describe-key SPC a` take me to `my/foo-bar`?

In Doom Emacs this worked, but running my own config I cannot find how
to get this to work.

TIA!

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zwindl · 2022-06-12 14:46

AFAIK, the \`evil-set-leader\` is the correct function to set a leader
key, but I can't let it work properly, either.

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meatgrinder · 2022-09-17 14:02

A bit late to the party, but I ran into this as well.  I have no
convenient solution, but it is possible to invoke `describe-key`
directly:

    (describe-key (kbd "<leader> f f"))