personal keybindings describe-personal-keybindings

[jarofromel]

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Hello, please is there a way to show user defined keybindings?

Recently I noticed the function describe-personal-keybindings from use-package, the short article here Personal keybindings.
As its name says it shows user defined keybindings. I tried it but it does not shows keybinding defined with map! macro.
I am aware of not using use-package internally anymore doomemacs/core@6f40ad5 so this specific function is just example.

I think it can be quite useful to see this overview. I tried to find someway to get this information from doom (describe-bindings, general-describe-keybindings, etc) but I didn't succeed.

I understand the keybinding can be quite complicated [How to (re)bind keys](https://discourse.doomemacs.org/t/how-to-re-bind-keys/56) so I will stay with map! macro.

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[hlissner]

There is no such command. And such commands can't determine whether a keybinding was made by you, Doom, a package upstream, or Emacs itself.

The simplest way to see what keybindings you've bound is to visit your private config in $DOOMDIR/config.el and look at your map!/define-key/whichever-API-you-use calls. You put them there, after all.

If what you actually meant are Doom's keybindings, well, open $EMACSDIR (typically in ~/.config/emacs; use M-x doom/find-file-in-emacsd), and do a project search for (map! with M-x +default/search-project). Two good places to look are the :config defaults module (in particular the +evil-bindings.el and +emacs-bindings.el files, depending on which one you have enabled). Can't guess much else since you didn't provide your doom-info.

If you want to know what keybinds Emacs or packages have bound, open their source with M-x find-library and look for define-key or define-keymap/keymap-set calls.

This may sound like a lot of work, but it's really the most surefire way to learn anything in Emacs. Documentation can lie or be outdated, code can't or it wouldn't work.

[jarofromel]

Thank you for summing it up, the separation to "you, Doom, a package upstream, or Emacs itself" keybindings is really helpful. The way I check keybindings I've bound is to look up for map! in my private config.

[bestlem]

I would note that the command general-describe-keybindings will show all keys bound through general.
In doom this will include all those set with map! by doom and also by you . It will not show the bindings done by define-key so not the Emacs or probably not an upstream package.

[jarofromel]

Thanks. I noticed this command as well. It is useful to get the overview of most keybindings and the output is nested org file which is nice. I tried to extract just my keybindings from it but no success (there is no flag or column with this info in the generated tables).

[bestlem]

The function used is general-define-key see https://github.com/noctuid/general.el/blob/a48768f85a655fe77b5f45c2880b420da1b1b9c3/general.el#L1074

I do not think there is a parameter that can be used to split this. package might but neither doom nor your code is a package.

[bestlem]

A hack would be to do your keybindings with bind-key and only those would appear in describe-personal-keybings.
Doom's ie map! would be done with general and packages and emacs with describe-key

[jarofromel]

That is a good idea to solve my question. Thank you a lot!