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Yes Zmacs, my favorite editor of all times. Together with the space cadet keyboard and its control, meta, super and hyper keys.

by jcynix 2y ago

kragen 2y ago
the keyboard enthusiast community has advanced to the point that you ought to be able to get any keyboard you want manufactured affordably now?
- eadmund 2y ago
  Sadly, USB-HID does not define a hyper key, so no USB keyboard has a true hyper key. What one can do is configure the keyboard to emit a different, little-used key, and then configure X to recognize that key as hyper. I think what I do is emit left super for both super keys, and right super for both hyper keys, and then X turns right super into Hyper_L. Or something like that. This doesn’t bother me, because I don’t want to assign different meanings to the physical left and right super or left and right hyper keys — folks who do (e.g. for games) might not like it. I also had to do a little bit of magic to get hyper recognised as a modifier. It would be awesome if someone could get Hyper added to the official list of USB keyboard keys.
  - kragen 2y ago
    excellent! have you written up your configuration somewhere? are you using a public keyboard firmware? at the other end of the spectrum, i just hacked together this stupid shell script to blindly reimpose my desired xkb configuration with lower-case parens yesterday: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/kbdd http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/kbdd maybe you know the actually correct way to do this?
- jcynix 2y ago
  I actually own an original one (and some other goodies from my lispm time), I "just" need an adapter, but my electronics manufacturing / soldering talent is not adequate, sigh ;-0
  - kragen 2y ago
    i wonder if alfred szmidt, lars brinkhoff, or someone they know could set you up with an adaptor?
    - amszmidt 2y ago
      Oh my! :-) Sure could help out .. pipe me an email. It isn't that hard to do, and doesn't modify the original in anyway.
  - floren 2y ago
    If you're in the SF bay area, we might be able to get one put together... I've built several adapters for mice and keyboards, assuming the voltage levels are compatible it's mostly a matter of twiddling the right pins on a microcontroller. In return I would want to pick your brain about your lispm time :)
- cmrdporcupine 2y ago
  There's no need, there's already this thing of beauty: https://keymacs.com/ https://keymacs.com/

Yes Zmacs, my favorite editor of all times. Together with the space cadet keyboard and its control, meta, super and hyper keys.

by jcynix 2y ago

Yes Zmacs, my favorite editor of all times. Together with the space cadet keyboard and its control, meta, super and hyper keys.

kragen 2y ago

the keyboard enthusiast community has advanced to the point that you ought to be able to get any keyboard you want manufactured affordably now?

eadmund 2y ago
Sadly, USB-HID does not define a hyper key, so no USB keyboard has a true hyper key. What one can do is configure the keyboard to emit a different, little-used key, and then configure X to recognize that key as hyper. I think what I do is emit left super for both super keys, and right super for both hyper keys, and then X turns right super into Hyper_L. Or something like that. This doesn’t bother me, because I don’t want to assign different meanings to the physical left and right super or left and right hyper keys — folks who do (e.g. for games) might not like it. I also had to do a little bit of magic to get hyper recognised as a modifier. It would be awesome if someone could get Hyper added to the official list of USB keyboard keys.
- kragen 2y ago
  excellent! have you written up your configuration somewhere? are you using a public keyboard firmware? at the other end of the spectrum, i just hacked together this stupid shell script to blindly reimpose my desired xkb configuration with lower-case parens yesterday: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/kbdd http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/kbdd maybe you know the actually correct way to do this?
jcynix 2y ago
I actually own an original one (and some other goodies from my lispm time), I "just" need an adapter, but my electronics manufacturing / soldering talent is not adequate, sigh ;-0
- kragen 2y ago
  i wonder if alfred szmidt, lars brinkhoff, or someone they know could set you up with an adaptor?
  - amszmidt 2y ago
    Oh my! :-) Sure could help out .. pipe me an email. It isn't that hard to do, and doesn't modify the original in anyway.
- floren 2y ago
  If you're in the SF bay area, we might be able to get one put together... I've built several adapters for mice and keyboards, assuming the voltage levels are compatible it's mostly a matter of twiddling the right pins on a microcontroller. In return I would want to pick your brain about your lispm time :)
cmrdporcupine 2y ago
There's no need, there's already this thing of beauty: https://keymacs.com/ https://keymacs.com/