Error in private config: modules/private/spacemacs/config.el, (error Key sequence a o / starts with non-prefix key a)

[shlee625]

Hi. First of all, thanks for your great work. I installed emacs-27.2 and DOOM v21.12.0-alpha on OS X 11.6. I tried to install this module but it kept being failed. I tried the easier instruction as a private module.

Error in private config: modules/private/spacemacs/config.el, (error Key sequence a o / starts with non-prefix key a)

Here is my ~/.doom.d/init.el.

(doom! :input
       ;;chinese
       ;;japanese
       ;;layout            ; auie,ctsrnm is the superior home row

       :completion
       company           ; the ultimate code completion backend
       ;;helm              ; the *other* search engine for love and life
       ;;ido               ; the other *other* search engine...
       ;;ivy               ; a search engine for love and life
       vertico           ; the search engine of the future

       :ui
       ;;deft              ; notational velocity for Emacs
       doom              ; what makes DOOM look the way it does
       doom-dashboard    ; a nifty splash screen for Emacs
       doom-quit         ; DOOM quit-message prompts when you quit Emacs
       ;;(emoji +unicode)  ; üôÇ
       hl-todo           ; highlight TODO/FIXME/NOTE/DEPRECATED/HACK/REVIEW
       ;;hydra
       ;;indent-guides     ; highlighted indent columns
       ;;ligatures         ; ligatures and symbols to make your code pretty again
       ;;minimap           ; show a map of the code on the side
       modeline          ; snazzy, Atom-inspired modeline, plus API
       ;;nav-flash         ; blink cursor line after big motions
       ;;neotree           ; a project drawer, like NERDTree for vim
       ophints           ; highlight the region an operation acts on
       (popup +defaults)   ; tame sudden yet inevitable temporary windows
       ;;tabs              ; a tab bar for Emacs
       treemacs          ; a project drawer, like neotree but cooler
       unicode           ; extended unicode support for various languages
       vc-gutter         ; vcs diff in the fringe
       vi-tilde-fringe   ; fringe tildes to mark beyond EOB
       ;;window-select     ; visually switch windows
       workspaces        ; tab emulation, persistence & separate workspaces
       ;;zen               ; distraction-free coding or writing

       :editor
       (evil +everywhere); come to the dark side, we have cookies
       file-templates    ; auto-snippets for empty files
       fold              ; (nigh) universal code folding
       ;;(format +onsave)  ; automated prettiness
       ;;god               ; run Emacs commands without modifier keys
       ;;lispy             ; vim for lisp, for people who don't like vim
       ;;multiple-cursors  ; editing in many places at once
       ;;objed             ; text object editing for the innocent
       ;;parinfer          ; turn lisp into python, sort of
       ;;rotate-text       ; cycle region at point between text candidates
       snippets          ; my elves. They type so I don't have to
       word-wrap         ; soft wrapping with language-aware indent

       :emacs
       dired             ; making dired pretty [functional]
       electric          ; smarter, keyword-based electric-indent
       ;;ibuffer         ; interactive buffer management
       undo              ; persistent, smarter undo for your inevitable mistakes
       vc                ; version-control and Emacs, sitting in a tree

       :term
       ;;eshell            ; the elisp shell that works everywhere
       ;;shell             ; simple shell REPL for Emacs
       ;;term              ; basic terminal emulator for Emacs
       ;;vterm             ; the best terminal emulation in Emacs

       :checkers
       syntax              ; tasing you for every semicolon you forget
       ;;(spell +flyspell) ; tasing you for misspelling mispelling
       ;;grammar           ; tasing grammar mistake every you make

       :tools
       ;;ansible
       ;;debugger          ; FIXME stepping through code, to help you add bugs
       ;;direnv
       ;;docker
       ;;editorconfig      ; let someone else argue about tabs vs spaces
       ;;ein               ; tame Jupyter notebooks with emacs
       (eval +overlay)     ; run code, run (also, repls)
       ;;gist              ; interacting with github gists
       lookup              ; navigate your code and its documentation
       ;;lsp               ; M-x vscode
       magit             ; a git porcelain for Emacs
       ;;make              ; run make tasks from Emacs
       ;;pass              ; password manager for nerds
       ;;pdf               ; pdf enhancements
       ;;prodigy           ; FIXME managing external services & code builders
       ;;rgb               ; creating color strings
       ;;taskrunner        ; taskrunner for all your projects
       ;;terraform         ; infrastructure as code
       ;;tmux              ; an API for interacting with tmux
       ;;upload            ; map local to remote projects via ssh/ftp

       :os
       (:if IS-MAC macos)  ; improve compatibility with macOS
       ;;tty               ; improve the terminal Emacs experience

       :lang
       ;;agda              ; types of types of types of types...
       ;;beancount         ; mind the GAAP
       ;;cc                ; C > C++ == 1
       ;;clojure           ; java with a lisp
       ;;common-lisp       ; if you've seen one lisp, you've seen them all
       ;;coq               ; proofs-as-programs
       ;;crystal           ; ruby at the speed of c
       ;;csharp            ; unity, .NET, and mono shenanigans
       ;;data              ; config/data formats
       ;;(dart +flutter)   ; paint ui and not much else
       ;;dhall
       ;;elixir            ; erlang done right
       ;;elm               ; care for a cup of TEA?
       emacs-lisp        ; drown in parentheses
       ;;erlang            ; an elegant language for a more civilized age
       ;;ess               ; emacs speaks statistics
       ;;factor
       ;;faust             ; dsp, but you get to keep your soul
       ;;fsharp            ; ML stands for Microsoft's Language
       ;;fstar             ; (dependent) types and (monadic) effects and Z3
       ;;gdscript          ; the language you waited for
       ;;(go +lsp)         ; the hipster dialect
       ;;(haskell +lsp)    ; a language that's lazier than I am
       ;;hy                ; readability of scheme w/ speed of python
       ;;idris             ; a language you can depend on
       json              ; At least it ain't XML
       ;;(java +meghanada) ; the poster child for carpal tunnel syndrome
       ;;javascript        ; all(hope(abandon(ye(who(enter(here))))))
       ;;julia             ; a better, faster MATLAB
       ;;kotlin            ; a better, slicker Java(Script)
       ;;latex             ; writing papers in Emacs has never been so fun
       ;;lean              ; for folks with too much to prove
       ;;ledger            ; be audit you can be
       ;;lua               ; one-based indices? one-based indices
       markdown          ; writing docs for people to ignore
       ;;nim               ; python + lisp at the speed of c
       ;;nix               ; I hereby declare "nix geht mehr!"
       ;;ocaml             ; an objective camel
       org               ; organize your plain life in plain text
       ;;php               ; perl's insecure younger brother
       ;;plantuml          ; diagrams for confusing people more
       ;;purescript        ; javascript, but functional
       python            ; beautiful is better than ugly
       ;;qt                ; the 'cutest' gui framework ever
       ;;racket            ; a DSL for DSLs
       ;;raku              ; the artist formerly known as perl6
       ;;rest              ; Emacs as a REST client
       ;;rst               ; ReST in peace
       ;;(ruby +rails)     ; 1.step {|i| p "Ruby is #{i.even? ? 'love' : 'life'}"}
       ;;rust              ; Fe2O3.unwrap().unwrap().unwrap().unwrap()
       ;;scala             ; java, but good
       ;;(scheme +guile)   ; a fully conniving family of lisps
       sh                ; she sells {ba,z,fi}sh shells on the C xor
       ;;sml
       ;;solidity          ; do you need a blockchain? No.
       ;;swift             ; who asked for emoji variables?
       ;;terra             ; Earth and Moon in alignment for performance.
       ;;web               ; the tubes
       yaml              ; JSON, but readable
       ;;zig               ; C, but simpler

       :email
       ;;(mu4e +org +gmail)
       ;;notmuch
       ;;(wanderlust +gmail)

       :app
       ;;calendar
       ;;emms
       ;;everywhere        ; *leave* Emacs!? You must be joking
       ;;irc               ; how neckbeards socialize
       ;;(rss +org)        ; emacs as an RSS reader
       ;;twitter           ; twitter client https://twitter.com/vnought

       :config
       ;;literate
       (default +smartparens)
       :private spacemacs)

I figured out that "ao/" is being used in https://github.com/chenyanming/spacemacs_module_for_doom/blob/82950bb3912c53fb65006a59288390aa223e4dcc/layer/org/packages.el#L356 but I'm a noob in emacs, so I have no idea what to do to solve this problem. I tried the solution from https://github.com/chenyanming/spacemacs_module_for_doom/issues/9 but it didn't work. It would be grateful if you help me. Thank you.

edited I tried this module on ubuntu machine (emacs-27.1, ubuntu-20.04), but the same error occurs.

[chenyanming]

How about you add

 ​(map! ​:leader 
 ​      ​"​ao"​ ​nil​) 

 ​;​; unbind the keys when necessary 
 ​(general-auto-unbind-keys)

[jeremyjh]

@chenyanming Where are you suggesting to add that code? I tried adding it in the config.el or in the :config section of init.el before the :private spacemacs directive and I still get the same error reported by OP.

[chenyanming]

Did you do

(remove-hook 'org-load-hook #'+org-init-keybinds-h) 

in config.el

If you don't do that, doom's org keybindings and spacemacs's would mess up.

[chenyanming]

All settings could be added in your personal config.el. If that dont work you may need to add it in this package's config.el, using method 2 (Load this module directly) in README.

[chenyanming]

Or later I can add it directly in this package.

[jeremyjh]

@chenyanming yes thanks, there is no change with having the remove-hook there.

[jeremyjh]

@chenyanming I doubt it will work to have that code anywhere, even if I do not load the spacemacs module having the code

(map! ​:leader 
 ​      ​"​ao"​ ​nil​)

Produces the error all on its own.

[chenyanming]

I see. Seems have some other problems on your doom settings (not loading spacemacs module demonstrates that), try reinstall doom.

[jeremyjh]

@chenyanming I doubt that can change anything as this is already a vanilla install of doom with no other configuration changed, this package is literally the first thing I've tried. Have you tried updating doom to master to try to reproduce?

[jeremyjh]

Sorry I guess I had not redone doom sync, we won't get that error without the spacemacs package active.

[michael-stokley-tractmanager]

I'm running into this as well. Emacs 27.2 on mac, a brand new completely clean install of doom and this spacemacs module.

[mastokley]

Just confirmed I'm running into this issue on debian, too. Emacs 27.2, brand new installation of doom.

[chenyanming]

I reinstalled doom with emacs 28 on win and mac, no problems, did you still have this issue?

[tnira]

I tried a fresh install of emacs-28.1 and Doom Emacs on macOS. At least in my environment, I am getting the same error. doom.error.log

[chenyanming]

I had time today to clone a new doom with new emacs 28, and installed with the bug fix commit.

One thing is that, please enable hydra in init.el which is disabled by default.