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diff --git a/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md b/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md index c676dd2c1c..184142e0c1 100644 --- a/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md +++ b/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md @@ -7,16 +7,10 @@ Christopher Browne This was originally based on the default keyboard map, but I have been doing sundry experimentation: -1. Experiments +1. Useful Experiments ---------------------------------------- - * To figure things out about the toolset - * I'm an Emacs guy, so will be needing a fair bit of tuning * It made sense to mess around some with keyboard maps. - - 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 - I added a keypad, originally based on keymaps/numpad.c, but mighty substantially revised, as that one seems to be rotated 90 degrees from usual conventions for number pads @@ -30,6 +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 + * 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 --------------------------------------------------- @@ -48,8 +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 --------------------------------------------------------- @@ -62,3 +76,38 @@ 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 + + * 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 + interesting helpers. It might be interesting to add a "tmux + layer," or to have a few keys in a layer oriented towards that + * The mollat tmux layer also suggests some thoughts about Emacs + helpers. + * I do not presently have anything that handles X11 screen + switching, as with Control-Alt-various + * I ought to probably look into KC_LEAD, to have some key combos + that do not need to be concurrent + * The jeebak keymap seems to have some neat ideas: + - Number layer which is aggressive about having numbers in several places + - Touch layer seems interesting |