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cbbrowne custom keyboard |
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Due to cbbrowne@acm.org |
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Christopher Browne |
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This was originally based on the default keyboard map, but I have been |
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doing sundry experimentation: |
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1. Experiments |
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* To figure things out about the toolset |
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* I'm an Emacs guy, so will be needing a fair bit of tuning |
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* It made sense to mess around some with keyboard maps. |
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- I tried added Workman alongside Dvorak and Colemak |
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- Boy, oh boy, these don't help!!! |
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- I have done 30 years of learning of Emacs key mappings, and |
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these alternative keyboards massively mess me up |
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- I added a keypad, originally based on keymaps/numpad.c, but |
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mighty substantially revised, as that one seems to be rotated 90 |
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degrees from usual conventions for number pads |
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* The keypad layer also includes some sample "hacks" of cool things, |
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all using actions attached in using the function action_get_macro() |
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- Key [1][2] aka "q" types out my name, cbbrowne, as a fun example |
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of a key generating a bunch of keystrokes. The keystroke is |
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sufficiently inconvenient that it isn't terribly practical for me |
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to use it, but hey, it shows how others might use this facility |
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in a more useful context. |
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- Key [2][2] aka "a" uses a random number generator to select a digit 0-9 at random |
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- Key [3][2] aka "z" uses a random number generator to select a letter a-z at random |
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2. Some code structure ideas |
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Each layer is given a name to aid in readability, which is then |
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used in the keymap matrix below. The underscores do not denote |
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anything - you can have a layer called STUFF or any other name. |
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Layer names don't all need to be of the same length, obviously, and |
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you could also skip them entirely and just use numbers, though that |
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means needing to manage the numbers. |
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It is preferable to keep the symbols short so that a line worth of |
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key mappings fits compactly onto a line of code. It might be an |
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interesting idea to express the maps rotated 90%, so that you |
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only need to fit 4 symbols onto each line, rather than 12. |
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I used enums to manage layer IDs and macro IDs so that I don't need |
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to care (beyond "start at 0", and arguably that's not needed) about |
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their values. |
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3. Things I did not like about the default mapping |
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* I found control too hard to get to. I use it more than Tab, so |
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switched it there. |
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* Having dash on [lower-j] is a bit nonintuitive, but may be OK |
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* I switched ESC/TAB/M(0) around |
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* I'm suspicious that I want to shift M(0) from [4][1] to [4][2], |
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and shift ESC off the first column so KC_LCTL and KC_LALT can |
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be on the first column. |
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* I needed to swap ' and ENTER |