Add support for emote (emojis) on Linux

[rbreaves]

Remap emoji hotkey Ctrl-Alt-E to mac's keybinding of Ctrl-Cmd-Space.

https://github.com/tom-james-watson/Emote

[joshgoebel]

Are you planning to bundle an installer for emote as well or is this something users have to setup on their own? Are you going to make sure it's intended to stay running?

I'm interested in the hotkey part of it but if I do that I'm not sure what else might need to be done here?

[joshgoebel]

Doesn't this require two keymaps for some setups? Right now (for Mac Only) Ctrl is bound differently for Terminal and not, which means the combo needed to open the emoji picker is going to be different depending on whether I'm in a terminal or not... or do we not care about emoji in terminals?

I'm failing to see how I can write this once and it work with all the setups, or do you do this by writing a bunch of variants and then conditionallly uncommenting them, perhaps that's what all the complexity later is for. ☹️

[joshgoebel]

🌐OMG :)

🤣

    #  CmdCtrl -Space
    K("RC-LMeta-Space") : K("Ctrl-Alt-E"),

[rbreaves]

By default yea, the Terminal I would think would need a C-Shift-Space because basically those 2 bottom modifiers are both Control and Shift is added silently.

[joshgoebel]

I think you need to move the "per device" remapping into a lookup table and use those for your A function... then all of this becomes super simple... IE build the custom aliases you wanted just with Python.

MAC_ONLY = {
  "Cmd": "RC",
  "Alt" : "Alt",
  "Ctrl": "LSuper"
 }
WINMAC = {
  "Cmd": # ...,
  "Alt": #...
}

Then your A() function is:

SYS_MAP = WINMAC
#JS like-suedocode
def A(str):
  str.split("-").map(key => SYS_MAP[key] or key ).join("-")

IE, just take it apart, swap everything that is swap-able and put it back together... and as long as terminal is special you might need things like MAC and MAC_TERMINAL ... but then EVERYWHERE else (in all the keymaps) you'd just be reading the actual Mac shortcuts, straight out of the documentation.

[joshgoebel]

I think that will be a bit of a chore, but once you get thru it damn it should be nice.

[joshgoebel]

Would it be helpful it I made a PR for a single section, like Sublime Text 4? I'm only talking about kinto.py changes... you'd still need to go and alter your scripts to spit out/uncomment/add SYS_MAP = [SYSTEM] line... but that's all you should need to do setup wise.

Or are there other tuning knobs you have in "tweaks"?

[joshgoebel]

It's beautiful. :-)

CONVENIENCE = {
    "`": "grave",
    "[": "left_brace",
    "]": "right_brace",
}

MAC = {
    "Cmd": "RC",
    "Ctrl": "Super",
    # "Alt": "Alt"
}
L = K # L for Linux

SYS_MAP = MAC | CONVENIENCE

def Mac(str):
    rewritten = [SYS_MAP.get(key, key) for key in str.split("-")]
    return K("-".join(rewritten))

# keymapping
Mac("Cmd-Ctrl-Shift-F"): L("Shift-F11"),

[joshgoebel]

I prefer the longer alias names, but obviously that's just a preference.