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jgosmann / Karabiner-Elements-Neo

Neo2 Layer 4/6 for macOS Sierra
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Mod3+- does not produce — (em dash) #4

Closed tjanson closed 7 years ago

tjanson commented 7 years ago

Mod3+- (Neo) / Mod3+ß (Qwertz labels) doesn’t do anything; it should produce an em dash: —

I tried adding it myself but did not succeed. Maybe I can help more if you tell me:

jgosmann commented 7 years ago

Which keyboard layout file are you using? The one from http://neo-layout.org/? Or the one I provide in jgosmann/neo2-layout-osx? The problem is probably related to one of those files and potentially fixed in the version I provide (but maybe not).

How do I find out the krbn::key_code number of a key? They don’t seem related to these Karabiner hex key codes.

Those are found in the USB HID Usage Tables starting at page 53.

I see the Layer 4 mappings in src/core/grabber/include/manipulator/event_manipulator.hpp, but where are Layer 3 mappings? Are they entirely in neo.keylayout and if so, why is this particular symbol missing?

Yes, layer 3 mappings are entirely in the neo.keylayout. Interestingly, printable layer 4/6 symbols will invoke two key presses. The first is mapped as a dead key in neo.keylayout and the second key press then generates the symbol.

There were a few strange things in the neo.keylayout. That's why I did a bunch of changes to it, but I might have missed things.

tjanson commented 7 years ago

Which keyboard layout file are you using? The one from http://neo-layout.org/?

Yes. I did just switch to yours temporarily, and it’s the same there. Also my shift key is now broken for most uppercase letters, so I’ll be switching back. ;)

I now noticed that the em dash is also present on layer 2 and works there, so this bug is definitely extremely low priority.

thanks for the additional information. maybe I’ll be able to contribute a bit.

tjanson commented 7 years ago

Actually I’ll assume that this is a bug/omission in the layout file and thus unrelated to the code here.

jgosmann commented 7 years ago

Both need to interact properly, so I would be fine with this issue here. I'm also fine with opening an issue at jgosmann/neo2-layout-osx. Mainly I would like to haven an open issue for this somewhere as a reminder to investigate.

jgosmann commented 7 years ago

While there are certainly some graphics showing the em-dash on layer 3, others and especially the reference in the Neo SVN list the mod3+- key as empty. As such I assume the current behaviour to be correct.

To type the em dash layer 2 is the intended way as you already noticed.