One Shotting Loveness

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one shotting - noun, the action of using a one shot modifier on your kbm01

I believe the kb.io community just added a new word to the lexicon. Shotting as opposed to shooting. One shooting just sounds off.

Anyway, its the best. I might be one of the few non devs here so I’d like to thank algernon - Gergely Nagy and james.nvc for posting up examples of their config files so I can reference them. With solid examples, I can muddle my way through (almost) anything and break (al)most everything. Although, I may have to ask james.nvc how he switches between layers.

I’m not a huge fan of liking “things” but I have to admit, I like my M01 as much as my as I like my Ducati.

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Same! OneShot shift makes it so I only need one shift key too which frees up some primo real estate on the thumbkeys. The only mod I’m not using OSM for is alt which I think I’ll keep mis-hitting as space or mischording for Alfredapp.

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:heart::heart::heart:

I…may ask for permission to use that quote in marketing materials at some point.

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I use one-shots on the palm keys - in my Dvorak layout, you can see the OSL(_NAV) and OSL(_NUMPAD) - those are one-shot layers, acting like one-shot modifiers, but for layers.

To switch to QWERTY (which is just for letting people test-drive the keyboard, so I don’t care about it being easy to hit), I use the MagicCombo plugin to make holding down both palm keys plus the “QWER” and “UIOP” keys switch between Dvorak and QWERTY.

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Right, OSM and OSL, I did manage to figure out. Let me see if I properly understand MagicCombo.

void toggleQwerty() {
  if (Layer.isOn(_QWERTY)) {
    Layer.defaultLayer(_DVORAK);
  } else {
    Layer.defaultLayer(_QWERTY);
  }
}

const kaleidoscope::MagicCombo::combo_t magic_combos[] PROGMEM = {
  // both palm keys + Q W E R I U O P (i.e. top four keys of both
  // hands) to switch to qwerty
  [MC_QWERTY] = {
    R3C6 | R1C1  | R1C2  | R1C3  | R1C4,
    R3C9 | R1C11 | R1C12 | R1C13 | R1C14
  },

After reading and rereading, I understand, thanks.

So if I changed your sequence to use right fn + escape + 1 would it look like this?

const kaleidoscope::MagicCombo::combo_t magic_combos[] PROGMEM = {
  // both palm keys + Q W E R I U O P (i.e. top four keys of both
  // hands) to switch to qwerty
  [MC_QWERTY] = {
    R3C9 | R2C6  | R0C1
  },

Thanks in advance.

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I think you’d have to include a mask for the right hand as well - 0, I suppose? - but that looks right.

For people (like me) that are confused by the RC notation, there’s a diagram at the bottom of the docs here

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It might have been suggested already, but how about making OneShot keys glow when active. To provide visual feedback. I’ve been having some difficulty with OneShot keys when I think I’ve activated a OneShot key, when in fact I haven’t (due to me not pressing the key properly or pressing it twice absent mindedly and thus canceling the OneShot effect).

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LED-ActiveModColor does just that. :slight_smile:

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That’s awesome! Thank you.

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