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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 10h

It's dependent on Karabiner-Elements, so I have a little worry about being dependent on it, but, I think this iteration could be ported over to Lua or any other key remapping software, it's the concept of the key combos that mattered, and I think it's ready for use now.

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 10h

All that's left to do is to clean up some of the code, there's a 'press and hold caps lock' to use the nav/selection and then let go of capslock code left over from my using a vim inspired shortcuts package.

Once I get that tidied, either by ditching it, or getting it to work on hold, I'll release.

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 10h

Because most OS systems are made my programmers, their concept of 'move to end of line' is to move to the far right of the screen, so I put them on harder to reach keys as I find that less useful as an author, so I focus on paragraph, word, character now

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 10h

I have tested the keyboard only editing system I'm calling Glyph, and one thing became clear was I needed more logic in the UI if I'm using gestures, so I have the top keyboard row moving by paragraph, then home row by word, and bottom row by character. It's very instinctual, now, if I forget keys.

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 15h

There's a plugin for the app called LongForm that does that, I don't like it as much so I just copy and paste the story or chapters in. I am thinking about making a plugin of my own that just takes the MD file and turns it into a word file.

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 17h

Wow, that's quite a quote

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 17h

Sure!

Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 1d

A number of writers in the field when I came in were all nursing their Wordstar installs on DOS emulation in Windows b/c it had keyboard only editing which they swore by.

At the time I was 19 and didn't know what RSI was, so I shrugged.

Now I get it.

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 1d

This group says they have a solution for a windows app similar to Karabiner-Elements, but their code didn't work on a keyboard layout I tested from them on my Mac, I'm not sure if you'll be luckier, but it's free to try a 3 layer keyboard?

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 1d

ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org?q=vim%20mode...

That is the link to VIM Mode Plus for Karabiner-Elements. If you like VIM, you might enjoy having it system wide.

I'm using that to learn the code to get layering out of Karabiner, then heavily adapting it to my system.

Karabiner-Elements complex_modifications rules

Karabiner-Elements complex_modifications predefined rules by community

ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org

Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, I won't be as helpful.

ZSA are cool! Very awesome keyboards, but I like well dips too much and it's flat. More of a Glove80, Dactly Manuform, or Svalboard/Datahand guy. I've toyed with one for travel, but I don't do as much these days.

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, here I'm using to trigger the vim modal and untrigger it, though I think I may look to using vm held together as a trigger b/c even caps lock overuses my pinky, and I'm thinking about remapping " as my right pinky feels it

Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 1d

There's a nice implementation of VIM for Karabiner, and a lot of the motions I'm taking are just that VIM remapped, and me paring off a bunch of VIM syntax and tossing it to simplify it for my needs.

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 1d

Right, I use Obsidian to write in, Mail in osx to manage email, webpages to write in, so the lack of using it system-wide also is a huge motivator to have something like Karabiner handle the vim-like modalities.

I explored using my keyboard's QYMK software, but then my laptop keyboard is left out.

Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 1d

I am pretty sure I said in the first post of the thread that I didn't like vim or emacs as they didn't fit with my brain, so let's assume I tried vim and it didn't meet my needs?

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 1d

Do keep an eye out if you're using OSX, as I have boards with mnemonics for Colemak users :)

SDF on qwerty will be 'scoop/demark/fill'
RST on Colemak will be 'rip/select/throw'

:)

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 1d

it feels like it would fill up the clipboard a lot, I suspect dropping down and hitting 'c' to copy after 'demarking' the text would prevent a lot of useless filling up the clipboard history, particularly since I want to get a decent clipboard history app so I can copy things quick, then go drop em

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 1d

A *lot* of work to do: figure out how to block off keys from triggering if they're not usable.

I need to also fix that in OSX logic the move forward a word jumps to the end of the word, I'd prefer it to move to start of the next word.

And decide if designate/demark is a full yank or select only

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a GIF of proof of concept, moving around using only keyboard nav and then selecting text with the d key held down.

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 1d

But the goal is mouse-less, easy to remember, keyboard only text editing.

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 1d

What's nice about karabiner is that I can order what it pays attention to, so I can download something like hyper-JKL and play with it on Colemak, but I needed the layer to stay on while editing without me holding lots of command keys

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 1d

On my Mac I'm using Karabiner-Elements, and I will post the code once I perfect it down a bit and start using it daily to get a sense of what needs refined.

There's HYPER-JKL but it requires you to hold down the caps lock key, I like tapping it

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 1d

Once text is selected, pasted, moved about, hit the caps lock key and it drops back into your normal keyboard.

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