supposedly the programmer layouts have ctrl and alt like old messagease had but i can’t find them? all i can find is dessalines saying it should be in the thumbkey developer layouts in here: https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key/issues/656
now if there’s a way to get ctrl+alt on the messagease layouts would be a followup question, i don’t want to learn a new button layout if i can avoid it, been using messagease since first term obama lol
I can’t seem to find it in any of the layouts, it’d have to be added. But also since thumb-key really doesn’t have tap and hold, what are you trying to do?
termux and terminal emulators usually have a bar for these rare press and hold actions.
@dessalines @juche_fan this is something I miss from messagease, too. there were special gestures for ctrl and esc. (up and back from the space bar iirc.)
on messagease i would just do the ctrl or alt swipe then press a letter (etc) and it would do ctrl+letter, so useful for e.g. screen/byobu/tmux ctrl+a n without fiddling with special terminal app keyboards. also ctrl+a, ctrl+c, ctrl+v, ctrl+x, ctrl+z usually work in android apps and sometimes work better than the dedicated buttons for them
It seems some methods exist in the code and could be binded to keys using Yaml:
ToggleCtrlModeTrue ToggleCtrlModeFalse ToggleAltModeTrue ToggleAltModeFalse
I haven’t figured out how to write the Yaml properly for that in the little text field to modify keys… but I think it could solve the problem. Does any one how this yaml text field works?
I found how to do the yaml, but that methods do not do that I was expecting… and therefore it doesn’t solve the problem.
There are some recent unreleased code fixes related to this but I have no idea what your problem is so I can’t solve it. You’ll need to open up an issue in the github.
