Dedicated brackets key

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@jesse @algernon @lasse -

here’s my excerpt of this thread. Please proofread, and I’ll link it in the sidebar when it passes muster. :slight_smile:

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For now I’d just strongly recommend the “free” brackets key that @algernon first suggested. It is the one I ended up with (for the time being)

But the full solution is still very relevant. If instead of using a US layout I switched to a Danish layout I’d be in even more trouble.

  • ( = shift + 8
  • { = altgr + 7
  • [ = altgr + 8
  • < = the special <> key which also gives us \ with altgr on nordic keyboards

So instead of slaying this monster I vent on to slay the monster of inputting international characters on a US layout keyboard. That fight is won on MacOS, but I ran into issues on windows. So status monday morning is that my Model01 is almost, but not quite, ready to bring with me to work …

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I’ve gone in a slightly different direction here. PgUp and PgDn didn’t seem to me to deserve unshifted keys; so I’ve done this:

  • moved [ / { to PgUp and ] / } to PgDn, with parentheses on the Fn-shifted versions
  • moved the cursor keys to IJKL, for the same reasons as you
  • moved PgUp to Fn-U and PgDn to Fn-O
  • moved Home to Fn-H and End to Fn-; (leaving Fn-P unused)

I like this a lot, as it puts all the motion keys together on the right hand, and makes the delimiters easier to type. (On the host I rotate the delimiters, so parentheses are unshifted, brackets are shifted, and braces are Fn-shifted; this is actually a remapping I’ve done for many years for standard keyboards. It’s not immediately obvious to me how to do this in the Model 01 firmware, though I guess there must be a way.)

I like what you’ve done with the mouse keys, though. I might copy that.

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In @algernon post about you can see how to use TOPSY(LeftBracket) to swap the two.

The inverse T for mouse keys is a success. Warping NW and NE too. SE and SW not so much.
having T as left-click is cool since it easy for at gamer to learn. But not cool, if you need to drag og select text, so I am looking for another / alternative solution for that.

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I moved the mouse keys around so they fall as follows:

     NW   up   NE   NoWarp
LBut left down rght RBut
PrSc SW   MBut SE   insert

See https://github.com/andrewgdotcom/Model01-Firmware/blob/master/layer-abg-function-inverted-t.h

The idea is that the left button is the one most often held down during a drag, so it is on a different finger from the three required for navigation. The warp keys are arranged in a square around the inverted-t so that they are in an intuitive position and can be used comfortably by the same three fingers.

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If the ‘01’ were a constant in many programming languages, it would be in octal, but ignoring that convention it could be that the next product would be the Model010, with the Model011 to follow.

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Naming it Model 010 would also prevent reduce the number of people calling it the “model ten” like they would if it were Model 10.

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If this naming is actually used I would suggest adding a parity bit to minimize product naming confusion.:sunglasses:

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Oh, what if the ‘1’ in ‘01’ is already actually a parity bit? :thinking:
Or maybe the ‘0’ is a leading parity bit? Unfortunately we don’t have much to work with to try to figure out the algorithm.

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@lasse Did you manage to do this? If so I would be very happy to see how you did it! I’d like to do the same for Swedish – åäö and shifted ÅÄÖ.

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My current version works on MacOS, provided you change the input source i System preferences to a unicode keyboard. It also requires that you hard code that the OS is OSX in the firmware, since OS autodetection is flaky.

Currently it doesn’t work on windows for me. :frowning: Don’t really know what to do about it, so my keyboard is just gathering dust, while I hope somebody else paves the way …

But provided you use MacOS, the macro I made works.

If you use a swedish layout in the OS, you will have an easier time getting swedish characters to work. But that will change how keys work when shifted - and for that I prefer something closer to a US layout.

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Oh. And the danish characters got a whole seperate thread with the full discussion. Please continue that, and keep this one to brackets :wink:

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re: switching operating systems: I used the Leader plugin to define a sequence I can hit to switch the HostOS to Linux or macOS, depending which computer I’m using: https://bitbucket.org/jamesnvc/keyboardiolayout/src/3adfbb9dce112504bbd8fb3bc92b213ed8d09304/james_layout.ino?at=master&fileviewer=file-view-default#james_layout.ino-221

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I have defined macros to switch os. You can find them in my github link above.

I think they work fine, but I am not 100% since I have all sorts of problems on Windows and haven’t tested on Linux :roll_eyes:

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