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Julow / Unexpected-Keyboard

A lightweight virtual keyboard for developers.
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Text replacement #483

Open ghost opened 1 year ago

ghost commented 1 year ago

Shortcuts for longer phrases, set by the user, could be useful.

Spike-from-NH commented 1 year ago

If you define your own key layout (see #345), you can implement multiple characters as a single keystroke or swipe. (Entire phrases would lead to a seriously cluttered layout! Perhaps XML syntax to specify alternate keycap legend? I'd prefer English "Home", "End", "Paste", etc. over the pictograms.)

OP's request is also known as macroes.

Julow commented 1 year ago

You can also add custom keys to the keyboard with the "Add keys to the keyboard". That doesn't have the power I expect from macros though.

I plan to allow custom key combination in the future compose key and custom words in the word correcting.

Spike-from-NH commented 1 year ago

The Compose key has become a non-issue for me since learning about custom layouts. Rather than learning new sequences that might still omit other users' favorites, perhaps give us a gesture that produces a pop-up in which to type a UNICODE of a character to insert into the text.