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Re:Chorded keyboard by epx on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @08:39AM (#20746237)
Made and tried to use a sort of chorded keyboard out of a keypad. The idea breaks down when you need to emit some key combination like Command-Shift-[ (I am a Mac user).
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Re:Chorded keyboard by SuperPaintMan on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @09:36AM (#20746822)
My solution to that was to have a command mode that separates out the individual keys. So you'd stroke Command/Meta/Shift/[/Command and it would send them all together.

A bit cumbersome, but for conflicting sequences like that you use often you'd bind it to it's own separate chord (or bind Meta+Shift to a chord).

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Re:Chorded keyboard by claforte on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @08:52AM (#20746358)
At a minimum you'd need your keyboard to support NKRO, N-Key Roll-over, and you'd need a software like Plover.
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