Just got my PVT Model 01 and it’s great! Of course one of the first things I’m thinking about is what customizations (if any) to make to the default key layout, so that my fingers can learn those changes right away as they learn the Model 01. I’ve been thinking for a while, looking at the Model 01…

I think all the chording problems are really alleviated by the OneShot plugin - I highly recommend checking it out. I also using a tiling WM (i3wm) and emacs (although I do mostly use evil-mode).

[image] james.nvc: I think all the chording problems are really alleviated by the OneShot plugin yeah - you mentioned it in the emacs thread there. Does sound interesting - I’ll check it out in a month or two once I’ve got back to reasonable level of productivity with the new keyboard! For …

I’m finding that ctrl-alt combos kind of suck. Especially linux’s default ctrl-alt-f1 to switch to virtual terminal 1. These currently require me to palm the fn key & hit ctrl with right thumb whilst chording alt & 1 with the left (I’m sticking with totally symmetrical modifier keys). Any suggest…

[image] rick: Any suggestions to make ctrl-alt less terrible? I haven’t done it yet, but I’ve seriously considered remapping one of the ctrl keys to BE ctrl+alt. If I remember the syntax correctly, you would put CTRL(Key_LeftAlt) in your keymap for that key.

There’s also OneShot modifiers, so you don’t have to chord those modifiers.

[image] merlin: There’s also OneShot modifiers, so you don’t have to chord those modifiers. That’s what I’m trying first.

Moving the right hand down to paw at ctrl, alt & space all at once with thumb, index, middle fingers seems actually very comfortable… Gonna roll with that for now!

Planning on using one of the thumb keys as a macro to make a full stop (period for the americans), space and capitalise the next letter. So instead of typing “full stop, spacebar, hold down shift and press first letter of next sentence” I can type “macro, first letter of next sentence”. Was plannin…

Interesting idea. @algernon , is this doable without a custom mini-plugin? Without looking at the code, I’m not sure how to do the “one-shot” shift correctly. This actually seems like a case for run-time registering and de-registering of hook functions in some capacity. (With my re-design, I could g…

Should be doable with a macro that triggers OneShot at the end, yes.

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kajsa.anderson (kajsa.anderson) November 4, 2017, 11:16pm 27

That’s what I’m trying first.

Combining macros with modifiers

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