Moving the Ctrl Key

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  • Visual Studio Code

    Visual Studio Code

  • I think you are referring to this? From the wiki at https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Keybinding-Issues:

        Are you customizing keyboard mappings via setxkbmap or equivalents?

  • xcompose

    for sharing .XCompose keybindings

  • Another possible solution is to define a compose key (I use SysRq) to type characters not on the keyboard, such that (for example) the three-key sequence "SysRq . Z" is Ż.

    Here's the XCompose file I use:

    https://github.com/kragen/xcompose

  • InfluxDB

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  • miryoku

    Miryoku is an ergonomic, minimal, orthogonal, and universal keyboard layout.

  • https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku

    e.g. A popular off-the-shelf keyboard which supports this layout https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/

    > ...below the space bar

    Well. Then you'd need to move your hands, or stretch your fingers a bit. It's better to have a smaller spacebar key, to allow for extra keys.

  • god-mode

    Minor mode for God-like command entering

  • I remap CapsLock to Esc and use that as my toggle key in god-mode: https://github.com/emacsorphanage/god-mode

    This makes the Ctrl sticky, thus emulating the modal behavior of vim, but using emacs bindings. It also has some clever escape sequences that let you input complex chords without ever having to press more than one button at a time.

    I have gotten so used to it that I have started looking into a way to make a solution that is global across my whole system (Linux). So far I can emulate some of the behaviour using something like kmonad (https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad) although some things like repeated keystrokes cannot easily be expressed using the configuration language and requires a more low-level approach.

  • kmonad

    An advanced keyboard manager

  • I remap CapsLock to Esc and use that as my toggle key in god-mode: https://github.com/emacsorphanage/god-mode

    This makes the Ctrl sticky, thus emulating the modal behavior of vim, but using emacs bindings. It also has some clever escape sequences that let you input complex chords without ever having to press more than one button at a time.

    I have gotten so used to it that I have started looking into a way to make a solution that is global across my whole system (Linux). So far I can emulate some of the behaviour using something like kmonad (https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad) although some things like repeated keystrokes cannot easily be expressed using the configuration language and requires a more low-level approach.

  • SaaSHub

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