For all the funky key-combo ideas like keycombos, tap-dancing and so on I strongly suggest looking into keyboards that can be fully customized with say QMK firmware. You’ll be able to do all these types of in pretty much exactly as you want it. Keys that function as one-shot keys, keys that do comb…

I agree that is an excellent solution for those willing to use an external keyboard. I personally never plug an extra keyboard into my laptop.

Can’t wait to learn which customizable keyboard enables these tools: [image] Rhino urgently needs these tools! Rhino Currently, Rhino is in something like a NURBS-crisis. Alias made a huge progress in the past 20 years, unlike Rhino’s main NURBS surfacing and control poin…

Hello @nathanletwory I thought about it a lot, but I never understood how to do it and what to buy exactly. Do you know a “tutorial for dummies”? jmv

[image] Rhino 9 Feature : Instant Aliases (hot keys) because it’s impossible to to match everyone’s’ expectations exactly. which is also partly the reason that I brought up configurable keyboards / input devices.

[image] jmv: Hello @nathanletwory I thought about it a lot, but I never understood how to do it and what to buy exactly. Do you know a “tutorial for dummies”? jmv Some manufacturers such as ZSA, MoErgo or Dygma offer GUIs that make it so that you don’t really have to do any programming. So…

[image] Intuos: switching layers, which can be cumbersome if you also use Grasshopper, where you need to type It is all a matter of configuring the keyboard with that in mind - make the switching as easy as possible.

You just have to keep in mind that you do need to switch or you may type gibberish. :wink:

[image] Nathan 'jesterKing' Letwory: keyboards that can be fully customized with say QMK firmware Autohotkey also exists. Tap vs. hold could easily be wired up. I used that for everything before I found the Swiftpoint with mouse gestures. It’s also easier to set up on multiple machines tha…

[image] Eric Paul Marvets: Autohotkey also exists. Another solution is GitHub - kmonad/kmonad: An advanced keyboard manager

Heh, keyboard monad written in Haskell. I love it! And I will use it for general KB re-configs, like with capslock. The downside is that it can’t detect the current application . They suggest some workarounds, but auto-switching keymaps based on the active application with AutoHotkey is quite sea…

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stevebaer (Steve Baer) September 4, 2024, 9:57am 14

I split this out from Rhino 9 Feature : Instant Aliases (hot keys) as it was getting lost in that post and there are good suggestions in here.

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