Hello all!
I've been using a KBC Poker at work for the past week and since wednesday a HHKB at home, I really like the "right-side-of-the-board" approach to cursor movement that the HHKB uses as opposed to the FN+WASD on the poker. I have not been using these mini boards very long. On the poker, using two hands (and primarily the oposite one that I am used to) to operate the arrow keys has proven hard, not to mention that one needs to move both away from the home row as opposed to just one with a normal arrow key setup. It is with this in mind I decided to see if I could re-produce the HHKB functions using KeyRemapForMacbook
For those who are not familiar with the program, KeyRemapForMacbook is a preference pane for OS X that allows users to remap keys as the name implies. I guess this is like Autohotkey for windows, but I do not know as I have never used Autohotkey, from the description it sounds similar, if not more powerful than KeyRemap. It comes with many useful pre-written items (Including some awesome global Vi and EMACS bindings), but also allows you to create your own mappings by editing an XML document.
It's free, and available
here, instructions for how to form the XML document are there, but sort of annoying to find (here's a
direct link).
Anyway, I thought that maybe others would like to try this out, so here's the code. There's one set up for Right-Shift as the modifier, and one for Right-Control, there's a reference at the above link to all the other key codes if you'd like to use a different one. So far I think I am liking the right-control better (as the size of the key on the poker is similar to HHKB FN, and it is slightly easier to hold down, also, from time to time I use my Right Shift Key), however, the right shift is closer to the actual position of the FN key on the HHKB, so YMMV.
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<item>
<name>Right Control + [/;/'// for Arrow Keys (HHKB STYLE)</name>
<identifier>private.r_control_hhkb_style_arrows</identifier>
<autogen>--KeyToKey--
KeyCode::SEMICOLON, ModifierFlag::CONTROL_R,
KeyCode::CURSOR_LEFT
</autogen>
<autogen>--KeyToKey--
KeyCode::QUOTE, ModifierFlag::CONTROL_R,
KeyCode::CURSOR_RIGHT
</autogen>
<autogen>--KeyToKey--
KeyCode::BRACKET_LEFT, ModifierFlag::CONTROL_R,
KeyCode::CURSOR_UP
</autogen>
<autogen>--KeyToKey--
KeyCode::SLASH, ModifierFlag::CONTROL_R,
KeyCode::CURSOR_DOWN
</autogen>
</item>
<item>
<name>Right Shift + [/;/'// for Arrow Keys (HHKB STYLE)</name>
<identifier>private.r_shift_hhkb_style_arrows</identifier>
<autogen>--KeyToKey--
KeyCode::SEMICOLON, ModifierFlag::SHIFT_R,
KeyCode::CURSOR_LEFT
</autogen>
<autogen>--KeyToKey--
KeyCode::QUOTE, ModifierFlag::SHIFT_R,
KeyCode::CURSOR_RIGHT
</autogen>
<autogen>--KeyToKey--
KeyCode::BRACKET_LEFT, ModifierFlag::SHIFT_R,
KeyCode::CURSOR_UP
</autogen>
<autogen>--KeyToKey--
KeyCode::SLASH, ModifierFlag::SHIFT_R,
KeyCode::CURSOR_DOWN
</autogen>
</item>
</root>
Cheers!
