Workman-p about ergodox-firmware HOT 1 CLOSED

Separating the symbols from the numbers is somewhat of a trick... The spec defines keycodes (not symbols) - "shift" is a keycode (well.. two keycodes, one for left, one for right) and all the number/symbol combination keys are represented by a keycode as well (just one per key, not one for each symbol). When you press "shift"+[some other key], it's the OS that decides what character to generate, not the firmware.

That said, "shifted keys" - i.e. keys that press "shift" then press another key - are already available. Note that "shifted keys" are really just a special case of macro keys.

I think the cleanest way to do it would be:

• define all the number row keys as shifted keys in layer 0
• define all the number row keys as non-shifted keypad number keys in layer 1 (or wherever), with all other keys on that layer transparent
• make "shift" into a macro key that presses "shift" + ~L1 (note that "~L1" would translate into a '1' in the keycode matrix, an 'lpush1' in the press matrix, and an 'lpop1' in the release matrix -- these actions will need to be combined with the actions that press then release "shift" when you write the macro-key functions)

Macro keys (beside the simple shifted keys already available) are a little bit difficult at the moment - you have to write them yourself in C. I plan to write up examples in the next rev of the firmware, but for now, take a look at the @BISL part of this post on geekhack for a general idea of how they'd look. You can find examples of key-functions here. Layouts are in this directory. If you downloaded the source from the Massdrop configurator, the layout file you'll want to worry about will be called default--layout.c.

from ergodox-firmware.