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Adding personal keybindings

There are five hooks which can be used for adding personal keybindings to the ECB tree-buffers:

• ecb-common-tree-buffer-after-create-hook
• ecb-directories-buffer-after-create-hook
• ecb-sources-buffer-after-create-hook
• ecb-methods-buffer-after-create-hook
• ecb-history-buffer-after-create-hook

These hooks are called directly after tree-buffer creation so they can be used to add personal local keybindings¹ either to all tree-buffers (ecb-common-tree-buffer-after-create-hook) or just to a certain tree-buffer. Here is a list which keys MUST NOT be rebound:

• RET and all combinations with Shift and Ctrl: Used for selecting nodes in all tree-buffers.
• TAB: Used for expanding/collapsing nodes in all tree-buffers.
• C-t: Used for toggling "jump after selection" in all tree-buffers, see command ecb-toggle-RET-selects-edit-window.
• All self-inserting characters: Used for easy and fast navigation in all tree-buffers, See Incremental search.
• F2, F3, F4: Used for customizing ECB, adding source-path in the directories buffer.

The following example binds C-a to some useful code in ALL tree-buffers and C-d to even more useful code ONLY in the directories buffer:

(add-hook 'ecb-common-tree-buffer-after-create-hook
          (lambda ()
             (local-set-key (kbd "C-a")
                            (lambda ()
                               (interactive)
                               (message "ECB is great!")))))

(add-hook 'ecb-directories-buffer-after-create-hook
          (lambda ()
             (local-set-key (kbd "C-d")
                            (lambda ()
                               (interactive)
                               (message "ECB is wonderful!")))))

Footnotes

1. To be more general: They can be used to run any arbitrary lisp code after a tree-buffer creation!