Space Cadet - style modtap | Wooting | Page 1

rotund spire Oct 24, 2023, 11:21 PM

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One feature I've gotten really used to on my QMK keebs is being able to tap LShift to get ( and RShift to get ). Modtap does almost exactly what I want, except that it won't let me select the parens characters. Would this be possible to add?

hollow ivy Oct 25, 2023, 7:05 AM

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the reason ( and ) arent available to you is because your selected keyboard layout in your OS does not have those as base layer keys. We could fix this by letting mod tap send multiple keys at the same time or being able to map DKS as a tap/hold.

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I dont know if anything like this is planned for the near future

rotund spire Oct 26, 2023, 1:41 PM

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I’m not aware of a way to trick other macOS or windows into thinking those are base layer keys. I’d love to be able to send multiple keypresses with modtap though. I wonder what QMK does for this? I guess it sends two keypresses.

hollow ivy Oct 26, 2023, 1:43 PM

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qmk usually cheats with OS specific workarounds

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for example on windows using alt codes

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on macos you can use ukulele to make custom keyboard layouts

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