From 82f768e6c04c57fa44d6020e3d57a6b3de211ddc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christopher Browne Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 16:07:00 -0400 Subject: Notes about changes --- keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md') diff --git a/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md b/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md index 5f08530f46..fdb0997001 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 +24,7 @@ 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 :-) 2. Some code structure ideas --------------------------------------------------- @@ -62,6 +57,10 @@ 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 + * 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 --------------------------------------------------------- @@ -73,6 +72,7 @@ doing sundry experimentation: 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 -- cgit v1.2.3 From 9778349c4bfb6723ef056eb3473a7fc15c45c435 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: cbbrowne Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 17:47:01 -0400 Subject: More notes --- keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md') diff --git a/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md b/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md index fdb0997001..5af688bb17 100644 --- a/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md +++ b/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md @@ -67,12 +67,13 @@ doing sundry experimentation: * I use tmux quite a lot; the mollat keymap seems to have some interesting helpers. It might be interesting to add a "tmux - layer" + 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 -- cgit v1.2.3 From 54214b3abcae2189341d124c29336b911d88da41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: cbbrowne Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 13:29:29 -0400 Subject: Borrowed joint Shift/Enter idea from sgoodwin mapping --- keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md') diff --git a/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md b/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md index 5af688bb17..51979f6300 100644 --- a/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md +++ b/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md @@ -77,3 +77,4 @@ 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 -- cgit v1.2.3 From 6a7ef59629dcb6cb388649002242abdab344424b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: cbbrowne Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 13:24:22 -0400 Subject: Ongoing experiment; have a special layer for RESET --- keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md') diff --git a/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md b/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md index 51979f6300..e9e423ed91 100644 --- a/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md +++ b/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md @@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ 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" + 2. Some code structure ideas --------------------------------------------------- @@ -57,12 +58,29 @@ 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 +95,3 @@ 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 -- cgit v1.2.3 From 5d643bb7ee8375a354693f19a6e9eae44f825532 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: cbbrowne Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 16:29:01 -0400 Subject: Got Right SHIFT + Right CTRL --- keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md') diff --git a/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md b/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md index e9e423ed91..272e042a0d 100644 --- a/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md +++ b/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md @@ -25,7 +25,12 @@ doing sundry experimentation: - 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 + * 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 2. Some code structure ideas --------------------------------------------------- -- cgit v1.2.3 From 24e8d01dc93c7367fbc58b79955b7c4ef6899c61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: cbbrowne Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:28:12 -0400 Subject: Move ALT... --- keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md | 19 +++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md') diff --git a/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md b/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md index 272e042a0d..184142e0c1 100644 --- a/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md +++ b/keyboards/planck/keymaps/cbbrowne/readme.md @@ -27,10 +27,23 @@ doing sundry experimentation: * 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 --------------------------------------------------- @@ -49,8 +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 --------------------------------------------------------- @@ -83,8 +96,6 @@ unwise things again... to allow selecting multiple items, and this really interferes with that - - 5. TODO --------------------------------------------------------- -- cgit v1.2.3