Evil remappings are reverted in dired and help buffers

[NightH4nter]

Issue type

• Bug report

Environment

Emacs version: GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.22, cairo version 1.17.3) of 2020-08-28 Operating System: Arch Linux Evil version: 1.14.0 Evil installation type: MELPA? (default one with straight.el) Graphical/Terminal: under X Tested in a make emacs session (see CONTRIBUTING.md): yes.

Reproduction steps

• run make emacs
• type

(evil-define-key nil evil-normal-state-map "j" 'evil-backward-char)
(evil-define-key nil evil-normal-state-map "k" 'evil-next-line)
(evil-define-key nil evil-normal-state-map "l" 'evil-previous-line)
(evil-define-key nil evil-normal-state-map ";" 'evil-forward-char)

(require 'dired)

dired can be replaced with other package (not with any other, some work fine;) in the last line. See "Further notes"

• M-x eval-buffer

Expected behavior

Evil remappings work in help and dired buffers. In this particular case, default hjkl shifted one key to the right, so jkl; to move left, down, up, right, respectively. The only "workaround" is to put all require-s before mappings.

Actual behavior

Keys are reverted back to the default ones in dired and help buffers (work fine in editor buffers though).

Further notes

See: https://github.com/ubolonton/emacs-tree-sitter/issues/123