Combos are the Broken Meta for Mechanical Keyboards
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- Опубликовано: 25 май 2022
- I finally got combos working under QMK and not only can you do cool things with that alone, but it leads into chords as well. It works differently in ZMK, but that's okay, as long as my gaming layer gets way better.
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when I switched to 24 keys I had to completely abandon layers and go with combos instead, because wasting an entire key for layer toggle wasn't an option anymore.
now all my keys have many functions on them, as an example:
tap 'a' - a
hold 'a' - quick action for my wm, such as 'run' launcher
dtap 'a' - ctrl a
'a' with some other key combo - enter, backspace, other functions
I have a function to repeat last sent thing, doesn't matter a key or a shortcut.
I have my own layout, not qwerty. I'm still very slow at this ~40wpm without punctuation, and I don't have any misspellings because of so many functions yet
24 keys would need a custom layout, can't cover the whole alphabet with them. Pretty cool how much you can get out of it, though. Part of my usage for layers is gaming, though.
@@Nephitejnf I don't game, but I thought about that. I wanted to make two halves ortholinear and to place some magnets into them, so that two halves connected vertically produce very large 4x6 key pad. But then you can't really type at the same time, or would have to make another layer for single hand typing, that's why I abandon the idea, takes too much energy, another layout, plus sacrificing vertical stagger for something I don't do anyway. Gaming is something done stationary, so doing it with regular keyboard makes more sense to me. 24keys is ultimate portability, not ultimate usability.
@@JamesSmith-ix5jd Yeah, I get that. I just like to inflict unnecessary pain on myself, now and then.
can you give advice on tap dance. i cant get it to work
We've always had a computer in our family, going back to the early 80s. All my nerd friends and I were sure, eventually, the keyboard would be replaced by some kind of sphere that would let you input by grasping it in different ways. And if not that, something else. Keyboard are so clumsy and incompatible with our hands, and yet, 40 years later with dozens of failed alternatives, the model M is still king.
True, but have you seen those ten key split keyboards?
Get a Unicomp Model M with a Pico controller and you can have QMK and all its features on a buckling spring keyboard.
That wooby looks comfy
Yeah, does quite well after wearing the stiffnessout of it, but the colors are a bit off from the one my dad has.
do you have link to this qmk keymap file?
Yup, there are some updates since that I have made
github.com/nephitejnf/qmk_firmware/tree/master/keyboards/ferris/keymaps/nephitejnf
@@Nephitejnf thanks bro
A sincere question, don't you think that when you need to use a combo for a comma or backspace for example, you're already over stressing your brain to memorize combos, instead of use your muscle memory to remember only one key ?
Yes, at first it does, after you learn it you get used to it. It's like learning to touch type, you stress you brain out at first to learn the motion until it becomes natural. It was much the same way when I was first using my ergodox, now know where the keys are depending on thelayer I am using, with thinking much about it.
tldr: Yes at first, but then you get to know it and it doesn't anymore.
@@Nephitejnf thanks for the clarification !