Steve Losh's Modern Space Cadet is an inspiration. It opened my eyes to the fact that there's a more useful keyboard hidden inside the vanilla QWERTY package that most of us have tolerated for all these years. This repo represents my nascent quest to unleash that more useful keyboard. At first, this might sound no different than the typical Emacs/Vim/<Every-Other-Editor> tweakfest. But it is. I'm not talking about honing my editor-of-choice. I'm not talking about pimping out my shell. I want a more useful keyboard everywhere. Whether I'm in my editor, in the terminal, in the browser, or in Keynote, I want a more useful keyboard. And ideally, I want the same (more useful) keyboard in every app. Ubiquitous keyboarding. Muscle memory. Don't make me think. How do I go to the beginning of the line in this app? The same way I go to the beginning of the line in every app! Don't make me think. How do I go to the top of the file/screen/page in this app? The same way I… Well, you get the point. cus·tom·ize (verb): to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference [dictionary.com] Any customization is, by definition, personal. While I find that these customizations yield a more-useful keyboard for me, they might not feel like a win for you. By repurposing the anachronistic caps lock key, we can make control and escape accessible via the home row. To activate, push the s and d keys simultaneously and hold them down. Now you're in (S)uper (D)uper Mode. It's like a secret keyboard inside your keyboard. (Whoa.) It's optimized for keeping you on the home row, or very close to it. Now you can: 📣 Shout-out to Karabiner's Simultaneous vi Mode for providing the inspiration for (S)uper (D)uper Mode. ⌨✨ Quickly arrange and resize windows in common configurations, using keyboard shortcuts that are on or near the home row. (Or, feel free to choose your own keyboard shortcuts.) Use control + s to turn on Window Layout Mode. Then, use any shortcut below to make windows do your bidding. For example, to send the window left, hit control + s, and then hit h. Use ← to send window to the monitor on the left (if there is one) Use → to send window to the monitor on the right (if there is one) Window Layout Mode ships with the default keybindings above, but you're welcome to personalize this setup. See hammerspoon/windows-bindings-defaults.lua for instructions on configuring shortcuts to your personal taste. Perform common Markdown-formatting tasks anywhere that you're editing text (e.g., in a GitHub comment, in your editor, in your email client). Use control + m to turn on Markdown Mode. Then, use any shortcut below to perform an action. For example, to format the selected text as bold in Markdown, hit control + m, and then b. Use l to convert the currently-selected text to an inline link, using a URL from the clipboard ("L" for "Link") macOS doesn't have a native hyper key. But thanks to Karabiner-Elements, we can create our own. In this setup, we'll use the right option key as our hyper key. With a new modifier key defined, we open a whole world of possibilities. I find it especially useful for providing global shortcuts for launching apps. Hyper Mode ships with the default keybindings below, but you'll likely want to personalize this setup. See hammerspoon/hyper-apps-defaults.lua for instructions on configuring shortcuts to launch your most commonly-used apps. Use control + h / j / k / l to move left/down/up/right by one pane in iTerm2 You'll be prompted to allow Karabiner-Elements to load its kernel extension, followed by a flurry of prompts related to input monitoring. Follow the prompts to upgrade your life. [summary]
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