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I wan't to switch the keybinding in helm-find-files when I go one level up or go in to a folder. Now it looks like:

  • "C-j" -> go in to the folder
  • "C-l" -> go one level up

For me, it's intuitive to switch them, so it will be the following:

  • "C-j" -> go one level up
  • "C-l" -> go in to the folder

I could replace the "C-j" to the one I wanted with this: 

(define-key helm-map (kbd "C-j") 'helm-find-files-up-one-level)

I don't know what's the action's name to "go in to the folder". If I find it out, that could be a solution.

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When running helm-find-files, you should be able to use C-h k C-j to find out what command will be run by C-j, for me, it gives:

C-j runs the command helm-execute-persistent-action (found in helm-find-files-map), which is an interactive Lisp closure in ‘helm.el’.

It is bound to , C-j, C-z.

(helm-execute-persistent-action &optional (ATTR 'persistent-action) SPLIT-ONEWINDOW)

and to avoid affecting the key bindings in other helm commands, you should change helm-find-files-map instead of helm-map, so the following is probably what you want:

(define-key helm-find-files-map (kbd "C-j") 'helm-find-files-up-one-level)
(define-key helm-find-files-map (kbd "C-l") 'helm-execute-persistent-action)
xuchunyang
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