I’m working on a set of libraries with which to extend the Keyboardio firmware with, and it looks like it will satisfy my own needs very, very soon now. But chances are, I won’t be able to play with the hardware yet by that point, so to keep myself occupied during the - hopefully - final stretch of …

Is there a way to have a key act as a modifier when held & another key is pressed, but send a different key when pressed by itself? e.g. control key is like a control when holding & pressing another key, but tapping it sends Escape. I’m currently using xcape on Linux & Karabiner on OS X to do this,…

[image] james.nvc: Is there a way to have a key act as a modifier when held & another key is pressed, but send a different key when pressed by itself? e.g. control key is like a control when holding & pressing another key, but tapping it sends Escape. It is possible, and I’ll add it to the li…

[image] algernon: Another thing I’ll add: a keylogger, and a tool to generate pretty heatmaps out of the logs Having Keylogger functionality as a plugin is great. But I want to be very, very careful about it for the obvious privacy reasons.

[image] jesse: Having Keylogger functionality as a plugin is great. But I want to be very, very careful about it for the obvious privacy reasons. Indeed. That will be its own separate library, with big, bold warning letters and the like.

Thank you @algernon for all the great ideas and effort you are already putting into the extension libraries. Since you asked: I am looking for a library to implement a “diacritics” key. The idea is, that instead of typing a dead key followed by the letter you want the diacritic to appear you first …

[image] michael: For example you would press an ‘e’ followed by the diacritics key which would delete the e and type an é. If you would press it one more time it would delete the é and type an è and so on. Depending on the language you would have different maps for the diacritics key. An inte…

Thank you for your fast response. That sounds wonderful. I would like to suggest thinking about a similar idea: A “compose” key. The idea is to type a sequence of characters which get replaced. The compose key might actually be “shift”+“diacritics”. The difference to the diacritics key is, that th…

[image] michael: I would like to suggest thinking about a similar idea: A “compose” key. The idea is to type a sequence of characters which get replaced. The compose key might actually be “shift”+“diacritics”. Compose-key is already implemented as an input method in all major OSes. There’s no…

[image] andrewg: Compose-key is already implemented as an input method in all major OSes. There’s no need to duplicate that functionality here. The currently implemented compose-key is a dead-key. So you have to press “compose” + sequence. Right?

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algernon (Gergely Nagy) November 11, 2016, 9:22pm 4

Another thing I’ll add: a keylogger, and a tool to generate pretty heatmaps out of the logs.

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