Hello, everyone. I'm interested in turning my keyboard into a chording keyboard, via software. There seems to be no suitable* solution around, so I'm going to make my own. UIM seems like an appropriate tool to do this.
Looking at im.scm, it seems like I have to create a record of type im with some suitable key-press-handler and key-release-handler functions, viz., k-p-h should store the set of keys that are held and k-r-h should translate that set into som stream of key events and/or characters that should be emitted. I've tried reading the manual but I failed: I couldn't find it. Did I look in all the wrong places, or is this mailing list the manual? ;-) I'd much appreciate any help and direction you can give me. Cheers, Jonas (*) I use a Kinesis Advantage. Most of the time I'm using two hands, but often enough I'm using my left hand to operate a trackball (viz., browsing). For those situations, it'd be nice to not have to switch back and forth to enter text. IOW, I'm really looking to create a one-hand chording IM. Also, I'm using the Dvorak layout for normal typing, so rather than e.g. map "jkl" to "the", I want to map "htn". This probably doesn't influence your answers at any deep level, but I figured it was worth mentioning. (It *does* explain why I'm not using plover: it requires two hands, it doesn't go well with dvorak---which probably could be worked around---and it requires you to press bottom row keys with your thumb, something my keyboard model is really not geared for.)
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