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@@ -24,7 +24,26 @@ doing sundry experimentation:
- Key [2][2] aka "a" uses a random number generator to select a digit 0-9 at random
- Key [3][2] aka "z" uses a random number generator to select a letter a-z at random
- Key [1][3] aka "e" spits out the keymap version number
- * Minor use of Space Cadet Shift; my SHIFT key has switched to KC_LSP0, so that when I just hit SHIFT, I get a left parens: ( which is great for Lisping. I don't have a Right Shift, so I don't get an autoclose; I think I'll live with that until a Planck successor with more lines of keys :-)
+ * Trying out sgoodwin's "hold Enter down to get Shift"
+ - Liking this Quite Well Enough...
+ - Applied this to both Shift and Quote
+ - It seems likely that Alt should get a right-hand-side, akin to this...
+ - Alt needs to move, and get a RHS
+ - Hence ALTRIGHT, and shifted ROT_LED over
+ - Emacs likes this!!! :-)
+ - I'm suspicious that I'll want to shift ROT_LED another location over,
+ so some modifier can replace the OS/KC_LGUI key
+ * I have added an alternate ADJUST layer that is activated via update_tri_layer()
+ - e.g. - LOWER+RAISE simultaneously
+ - This seems entirely more useful for handling my "special keys"
+ like the random numbers, user name, and such, than the keypad layer
+ * The _ADJUST layer provides a good place to have RESET
+ - But this isn't strictly enough; I want RESET somewhat accessible from
+ main layer lest an error hide that layer
+ - I never use the OS/KC_LGUI key (that's Command on MacOS, Windows
+ Key on Windows), so that's a good place to have it as a chord of
+ some sort
+
2. Some code structure ideas
---------------------------------------------------
@@ -43,8 +62,8 @@ doing sundry experimentation:
only need to fit 4 symbols onto each line, rather than 12.
I used enums to manage layer IDs and macro IDs so that I don't need
- to care (beyond "start at 0", and arguably that's not needed) about
- their values.
+ to care (beyond "start at 0", and arguably even that's not needed)
+ about their values.
3. Things I did not like about the default mapping
---------------------------------------------------------
@@ -57,12 +76,27 @@ doing sundry experimentation:
and shift ESC off the first column so KC_LCTL and KC_LALT can
be on the first column.
* I needed to swap ' and ENTER
+
+4. Unuseful experiments
+---------------------------------------------------------
+
+I have tried some things out that didn't turn out particularly well.
+I'll note some of these for posterity, hopefully helpful in not doing
+unwise things again...
+
* I tried added Workman alongside Dvorak and Colemak
- Boy, oh boy, these don't help!!!
- I have done 30 years of learning of Emacs key mappings, and
these alternative keyboards massively mess me up
-4. TODO
+ * Space Cadet Shift; switching L_SHIFT to KC_LSP0, so that when I
+ just hit SHIFT, I get a left parens. In principle, this is great
+ for Lisping.
+ - Unfortunately, there are times when mouse interfaces use SHIFT
+ to allow selecting multiple items, and this really interferes
+ with that
+
+5. TODO
---------------------------------------------------------
* I use tmux quite a lot; the mollat keymap seems to have some
@@ -77,4 +111,3 @@ doing sundry experimentation:
* The jeebak keymap seems to have some neat ideas:
- Number layer which is aggressive about having numbers in several places
- Touch layer seems interesting
- * Trying out sgoodwin's "hold Enter down to get Shift" \ No newline at end of file