I thought it would be interesting to have a topic in which people share useful macros they already use, intend to use or would like to use if they knew how, whether for keyboard(.io) or mouse or any other input. For context, I don’t code often and I work as a medical audio typist, so typing and brow…

The “double a” thread has reminded me of my forgotten desire to make a “repeat last letter” macro which would in theory make typing better by eliminating the awkward movement of repeating a letter, if one could get used to it.

Redial key: Shift-left, ctrl-c, right, ctrl-v - repeats the last letter as mentioned above, meaning if this macro is put in a reasonable place, you can avoid using the same finger twice when typing - this key would, if used consistently, be more frequently used than the 10 least commonly used letter…

[image] Llamalland: I don’t suppose there’s a more direct way to redial than that macro? I certainly wouldn’t want keylogger to be part of it unless it could be hobbled to only keep a few most recent keypresses in memory, safely. You can keep the last pressed key in memory, and replay that, y…

Thanks so much for doing that! I am not a coder (beyond Human Resource Machine games) and understand only a little that you wrote, so I can’t really program this myself unfortunately. I’m fine with just doing the macro version initially, but ultimately it would be really cool it if worked in this wa…

If you can upload your current sketch to GitHub, I can open a pull request to add this for you, with a fair amount of comments that will hopefully allow you to tweak it a little. [image] Llamalland: So I’m guessing I could just do what you did to ignore the redial key to ignore all non-alpha ke…

Thanks - when I’ve tweaked my sketch a bit more I will definitely do that!

If you can upload your current sketch to GitHub, I can open a pull request to add this for you, with a fair amount of comments that will hopefully allow you to tweak it a little. Instead of this, maybe it could just shown added to the default firmware? Might be more useful this way as an example …

[image] Llamalland: Instead of this, maybe it could just shown added to the default firmware? Might be more useful this way as an example in case anyone wanted to add something similar to their own setup, and then I could add it to my own, more finished layout when I actually have finished it. …

Come to think of it… I can turn this into a plugin with reasonable ease… And then all you’d have to do is: Kaleidoscope.use(&Redial); Redial.key = M(REDIAL); …and place M(REDIAL) on the keymap somewhere. I can also make it possible to customize what keys it remembers (and default to alphas or alph…

Can’t like your replies more than once - thanks so much! That all sounds pretty ideal. If you could do the pull request for adding it (either the plugin or the custom event handler hook) to the default firmware, that would be awesome, and I’ll at least have a go at adding it to my own sketch before…

Productivity macros, what do you use?

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Productivity macros, what do you use?

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