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General Discussion / Re: Experimental Keyboard Layouts and Command Rebinding

« on: March 01, 2024, 02:59:17 PM »

I've made some bindings for Colemak users who want to keep the same finger positions as QWERTY during vi-like navigation.
This way, we can use homerow keys HNEI as well as JLBK for all vi-like movements (which correspond to QWERTY's HJKL YUBN).
I made this by first using a default keyboard.cfg to swap keys in the following manner:

Colemak -> Default Command

E -> K
K -> N
N -> J
J -> Y
Y -> E

I -> L
L -> U
U -> I


Now your can move around by using
J L
H N E I
B K

This means that 2 default commands were actually affected:

• Cycling between energy/heat info, now bound to y (think of "energY") (previously bound to e)
• Open/closing the inventory panel, now bound to u (coincidentally in the same position as QWERTY's i key, to which it was previously bound)

All other commands work as expected (as default bindings)

To install, just delete keyboard.cfg and then drop this commands.cfg file into your user/ directory

Hope this helps, it sure made the cogmind experience a lot better for me!