spacemacs/init-evil rebinds K after loading buffer

[jschaf]

I rebound K in a private layer to move up 5 lines. After I load any buffer, spacemacs rebinds K to spacemacs/evil-smart-doc-lookup.

Is there a way to prevent that from happening?

[person808]

Try wrapping your code with (with-eval-after-load 'evil some-code)

[jschaf]

I have a function my:evil-keybindings that sets up my evil config. I created a private layer to do most of my customization. I tested running my:evil-keybindings a in a couple ways. Here was the order in which customizations were executed from earliest to latest:

1. Private Layer - bare call - (my:evil-keybindings)
2. Private Layer use-package :config - (use-package evil :config (progn (my:evil-keybindings)))
3. Private Layer with-eval-after-load - (with-eval-after-load 'evil (my:evil-keybindings))
4. Spacemacs use-package 'evil :init in ~/.emacs.d/spacemacs/packages.el
5. dotspacemacs/user-config in .spacemacs

I don't understand why 2 & 3 run before 4. That doesn't make sense to me.

[person808]

In your private layer add this to your packages.el (assuming evil is already in the <layer>-packages variable):

(defun <layer>/pre-init-evil ()
  (spacemacs|use-package-add-hook evil
    :post-config
    (progn
      (my:evil-keybindings))))

[syl20bnr]

I don't understand why 2 & 3 run before 4. That doesn't make sense to me

You are right, this is a big bug, going to fix it ASAP, thank you !

[jschaf]

@person808 the pre-init-evil worked, thank you.

[syl20bnr]

Indeed but it should not be necessary, OTOH what @person808 told you is the correct way to override lazy loaded settings, so always good to know :-)

[syl20bnr]

@jschaf Actually there is no bug at all :-) Did you put your evil stuff in a pre-init function ?
Can you paste here your configuration layer as well as your dotspacemacs-configuration-layers variable ?

[jschaf]

The evil stuff was not originally in a pre-init function. I tried use-package :config and with-eval-after-load.

I'll link to my code:

https://github.com/jschaf/dotfiles/blob/master/spacemacs-layers/joe/packages.el
https://github.com/jschaf/dotfiles/blob/master/home/.spacemacs

joe is my private layer.

[syl20bnr]

Ok I see, now all keybindings.el files are called before loading the packages.el files of the layers, this is why your bindings were overwritten. keybindings.el should not define bindings for packages, this file is here to provide a place where to put key bindings for stock emacs functions.

The order of loading is (from a file point of view):

• for all layers: load funcs.el
• for all layers: load config.el
• for all layers: load keybindings.el
• for all layers: load packages.el

I think that we should remove funcs.el and keybindings.el to keep only config.el which is called before loading any packages.el.

[jschaf]

I think that we should remove funcs.el and keybindings.el to keep only config.el which is called before loading any packages.el.

I agree. It's confusing to figure out what goes where. I would add a paragraph to the documentation on the precise order that the files are loaded and guidelines for how to separate functionality between the files.

[TheBB]

I think this can be closed.