[Feature Request] Disable autoshift on a layer

[Yamakaky]

Feature Request Type

• [ ] Core functionality
• [ ] Add-on hardware support (eg. audio, RGB, OLED screen, etc.)
• [x] Alteration (enhancement/optimization) of existing feature(s)
• [ ] New behavior

Description

On my Ergodox EZ, I have a letter layer, a special keys layer (alt-grey in french azerty), a media layer (pause, volume control...) and a gaming layer with only simple keys (no tap-hold or double function keys). I'd like auto-shift to be automatically enabled on the first two layers but not the later two. I don't think this possible currently, you have to toggle it manually. Would it be possible to make it configurable, maybe with a blacklist/whitelist of layers?

[Yamakaky]

Tagging @ezuk after our mail discussion.

[IsaacElenbaas]

I did this by modifying my layer toggles, but it gets complicated fast if there are multiple ways to get out of any layer. Would be very convenient and great for code readability.

[IsaacElenbaas]

Pretty easy implementation now that I think about it - just check layer here and return true, no need to actually enable/disable AutoShift on layer status changes. Not sure what a clean way of specifying the non-autoshifted layers would be, though.

[Nadrieril]

You might be able to enable/disable autoshift from your keymap file like this:

uint32_t layer_state_set_user(uint32_t state) {
    if (autoshift_enabled && (state & (1<<MEDIA_LAYER) || state & (1<<GAMING_LAYER))) {
        autoshift_disable();
    } else {
        autoshift_enable();
    }
    ...
    return state;
};

I haven't tested that but I use something similar to have a custom swap_hands layer which changes some keys in addition to enabling the swap_hands feature.

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[mikeduminy]

I would also like this feature

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[byamagata]

Are there any other requests like this that I can try and find for a solution? This would be great and I would love to see this happen!