This was originally based on the default keyboard map, but I have been
doing sundry experimentation:
-1. Experiments
+1. Useful Experiments
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- * To figure things out about the toolset
- * I'm an Emacs guy, so will be needing a fair bit of tuning
* It made sense to mess around some with keyboard maps.
- - 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
- I added a keypad, originally based on keymaps/numpad.c, but
mighty substantially revised, as that one seems to be rotated 90
degrees from usual conventions for number pads
- 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
+ * 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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interesting idea to express the maps rotated 90%, so that you
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.
+ I use enums to manage layer IDs and macro IDs so that I don't need
+ 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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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
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+
+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
+
+ * 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
+ interesting helpers. It might be interesting to add a "tmux
+ layer," or to have a few keys in a layer oriented towards that
+ - Keys for...
+ - Picking windows 0 thru 8
+ - next/prev/new window
+ * The mollat tmux layer also suggests some thoughts about Emacs
+ helpers.
+ * I do not presently have anything that handles X11 screen
+ switching, as with Control-Alt-various
+ * I ought to probably look into KC_LEAD, to have some key combos
+ that do not need to be concurrent
+ * The jeebak keymap seems to have some neat ideas:
+ - Number layer which is aggressive about having numbers in several places
+ - TouchCursor layer seems interesting
+ - It sets up a layer with cursor keys on the home keys
+ * The jeremy-dev keymap has some very interesting concepts
+ - Shift hands outwards; the special keys go in the center
+ - Symbol layer has some compound keys for C operators like /=, *=, -=, +=, ...
+ - This is likely what I'll use for my XD75re, and maybe I'll fork a
+ planck keymap for similar
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