For Doom, isn’t it a case of putting (define-key! ";" #'whatever) in ~/.doom.d/config.el? (Unless Doom has rebound C-h c, you can use C-h c : to find out what command : is currently sending… otherwise M-x describe-key-briefly, followed by :)

(Disclaimer: I have played with Doom a little, but am not a Doom user)

Oh, I guess it’s different for evil mode stuff, just a second

Yeah honestly I have no idea 😅 I’ve been googling for a few hours on it and I’m finding it really hard to just find any definitive way to do it

Or maybe it’s that there is so much information about doing it that I don’t feel confident doing any of them..

https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs/blob/develop/modules/config/default/+evil-bindings.el has

(map! :leader
      :desc "Eval expression"       ";"    #'pp-eval-expression
      :desc "M-x"                   ":"    #'execute-extended-command
...

So if those are the ones you want to swap, you should be able to copy that into your config.el, and change it

The evil but non-doom way is with evil-define-key, by the looks of it

Okay cool, so how do you figure that out then?

How do you figure out how to use evil-define-key, or..?

I guess what I’m asking is how do you find where the keybindings are defined

So if I was to do this with a completely unrelated keybinding where would I start to figure out how to rebind it?

C-h k (`describe-key`) should tell you where something’s defined

Okay that tells me the function it calls but not the actual binding, right?

Evil also provides evil-global-set-key, which is what you want here, I think: (evil-global-set-key 'normal ";" 'execute-extended-command), if you want to use evil’s mechanism, rather than Doom’s

describe-key should tell you everything

See this is confusing part with emacs there can be multiple ways to do things 😅

It doesn’t give you the exact elisp, but it tells you the keys, the command, the map, and the file

Is there a way to get the exact elisp?

Or is this just something I’m going to have to struggle with every time

Oh, sorry, it tells you the file that the command/function is from, not the keybinding

You can probably find that by grepping in ~/.emacs.d

Ahh yeah, good plan

In this case there are multiple ways of doing it because you’ve added Doom onto Emacs, and Doom is using evil mode - so you have to learn some combination of emacs, doom and evil mode

I imagine what I’d do is just copy whatever binding I find and replace it how I want it. That is until I start to understand it a little more

Yeah, it’ll get easier

Well awesome, thank you so much 🙇

Doom changes the learning curve, I guess - you get a nice setup out of the box, that’s both easier and harder to customise

Good luck!

Yeah part of the reason I choose it is that I can get going quicker but I might downgrade later on when I understand things more

I really recommend you join the doom discord, they are super helpful over there.