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@@ -24,7 +24,26 @@ doing sundry experimentation:
    - Key [2][2] aka "a" uses a random number generator to select a digit 0-9 at random
    - Key [3][2] aka "z" uses a random number generator to select a letter a-z at random
    - Key [1][3] aka "e" spits out the keymap version number
- * Minor use of Space Cadet Shift; my SHIFT key has switched to KC_LSP0, so that when I just hit SHIFT, I get a left parens: ( which is great for Lisping.  I don't have a Right Shift, so I don't get an autoclose; I think I'll live with that until a Planck successor with more lines of keys :-)
+  * Trying out sgoodwin's "hold Enter down to get Shift"
+    - Liking this Quite Well Enough...
+    - Applied this to both Shift and Quote
+    - It seems likely that Alt should get a right-hand-side, akin to this...
+    - Alt needs to move, and get a RHS
+      - Hence ALTRIGHT, and shifted ROT_LED over
+      - Emacs likes this!!!  :-)
+    - I'm suspicious that I'll want to shift ROT_LED another location over,
+      so some modifier can replace the OS/KC_LGUI key
+  * I have added an alternate ADJUST layer that is activated via update_tri_layer()
+    - e.g. - LOWER+RAISE simultaneously
+    - This seems entirely more useful for handling my "special keys"
+      like the random numbers, user name, and such, than the keypad layer
+  * The _ADJUST layer provides a good place to have RESET
+    - But this isn't strictly enough; I want RESET somewhat accessible from
+      main layer lest an error hide that layer
+    - I never use the OS/KC_LGUI key (that's Command on MacOS, Windows
+      Key on Windows), so that's a good place to have it as a chord of
+      some sort
+        
 
 2. Some code structure ideas
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@@ -43,8 +62,8 @@ doing sundry experimentation:
    only need to fit 4 symbols onto each line, rather than 12.
 
    I used enums to manage layer IDs and macro IDs so that I don't need
-   to care (beyond "start at 0", and arguably that's not needed) about
-   their values.
+   to care (beyond "start at 0", and arguably even that's not needed)
+   about their values.
 
 3. Things I did not like about the default mapping
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@@ -57,12 +76,27 @@ doing sundry experimentation:
      and shift ESC off the first column so KC_LCTL and KC_LALT can
      be on the first column.
    * I needed to swap ' and ENTER
+
+4. Unuseful experiments
+---------------------------------------------------------
+
+I have tried some things out that didn't turn out particularly well.
+I'll note some of these for posterity, hopefully helpful in not doing
+unwise things again...
+
    * I tried added Workman alongside Dvorak and Colemak
      - Boy, oh boy, these don't help!!!
      - I have done 30 years of learning of Emacs key mappings, and
        these alternative keyboards massively mess me up
 
-4. TODO
+   * Space Cadet Shift; switching L_SHIFT to KC_LSP0, so that when I
+     just hit SHIFT, I get a left parens.  In principle, this is great
+     for Lisping.
+     - Unfortunately, there are times when mouse interfaces use SHIFT
+       to allow selecting multiple items, and this really interferes
+        with that
+
+5. TODO
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   * I use tmux quite a lot; the mollat keymap seems to have some
@@ -77,4 +111,3 @@ doing sundry experimentation:
   * The jeebak keymap seems to have some neat ideas:
     - Number layer which is aggressive about having numbers in several places
     - Touch layer seems interesting
-  * Trying out sgoodwin's "hold Enter down to get Shift"
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