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When company-mode pops up suggestions, I want to use C-n and C-p to select the next or the previous options, instead of M-n and M-p.

Having found the general answer on this site, I was happy to try it out, but it turns out that doesn't work for me. I suspect this is because I have Evil mode enabled.

When I'm in evil-insert-mode, pressing C-h k C-n tells me:

C-n runs the command evil-next-line (found in evil-insert-state-map),
which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in ‘evil-commands.el’.

It is bound to C-n.

(evil-next-line &optional COUNT)

Move the cursor COUNT lines down.

Is there any way I can shadow this correctly in company-active-map?

For completeness, my configuration is:

(with-eval-after-load 'company
  (define-key company-active-map (kbd "M-n") nil)
  (define-key company-active-map (kbd "M-p") nil)
  (define-key company-active-map (kbd "C-n") #'company-select-next)
  (define-key company-active-map (kbd "C-p") #'company-select-previous))
RogerTheDragon
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  • Try this one, works with my setup: `(with-eval-after-load 'company (with-eval-after-load 'evil (evil-define-key nil company-active-map (kbd "C-s") #'company-select-next)))` – Hubisan Aug 16 '19 at 13:07
  • hmm, yours actually works as well :-) Are you using evil-collection? Maybe the after 'evil is needed as this might overwrite it globally. Or as it tells you about insert state map: `(evil-define-key 'insert company-active-map (kbd "C-n") #'company-select-next)` – Hubisan Aug 16 '19 at 13:12

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I wish I understood why, but thanks to @Hubisan's comment I was able to get it to work. I have tried many permutations, but this is the only one that seems to actually work:

(with-eval-after-load 'evil
  (with-eval-after-load 'company
    (define-key evil-insert-state-map (kbd "C-n") nil)
    (define-key evil-insert-state-map (kbd "C-p") nil)
    (evil-define-key nil company-active-map (kbd "C-n") #'company-select-next)
    (evil-define-key nil company-active-map (kbd "C-p") #'company-select-previous)))
RogerTheDragon
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