Show HN: Vim-Like Layer for Xorg and Wayland

Re:Show HN: Vim-Like Layer for Xorg and Wayland by secure on Thursday August 27, 2020 @03:27AM (#24290975)

It’s reasonably simple to port QMK (at least partially) to a new microcontroller.

I have worked on Teensy 3.6 support for QMK, and plan to work on Teensy 4.x support as well.

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Re:Show HN: Vim-Like Layer for Xorg and Wayland by Coolsies on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:15AM (#24341919)

I'm sorry to barge in,but I am in dire need of what you are working on. Could you share your progress or material, Sir?

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Re:Show HN: Vim-Like Layer for Xorg and Wayland by Ianvdl on Thursday August 27, 2020 @03:33AM (#24290998)

Is any special hardware needed, or is it all software work?

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Re:Show HN: Vim-Like Layer for Xorg and Wayland by rfoo on Thursday August 27, 2020 @03:41AM (#24291032)

It's more like full-hardware-no-software work.

Basically if you want to use this on your "standard" keyboards bought off the shelf, you have to either:

1. Open your keyboard, replace the keyboard controller with something that you can program via soldering etc.

or 2. Pray your keyboard doesn't use a mask ROM to store its firmware, and it has a powerful enough MCU as keyboard controller, then figure out how to reflash it and port QMK to it blindly.

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