This is an experimental fork of OptiKey with some features and ideas specific to users who want to write code.
There is a low bar to adding features/hacks in the interest of trialling different workflows and seeing what is most helpful. However, the stability this fork is not guaranteed - if you like a feature, open an issue to discuss whether it's appropriate for going back into the core Optikey app.
Core features we have experimented with so far:
- Function keys to quickly switch between Presage prediction for prose (comments etc) and basic prediction for syntax
- Swap between small language-specific dictionaries for syntax word prediction
- Add words to dictionary temporarily (for this session) or permanently
- Add words from clipboard to train Presage
- Allow trigger gamepad button to be held down for repeat presses
- A plugin to copy text to clipboard via a regex filter
- Add larger SuggestionGrid for situations in which you want more suggestions visible
Keyboard features:
- Reset prediction mid-word for snake_case, CamelCase variable names
- Specific keyboard for VS Code, including lockable shortcut bar, snippets, navigation and more
- Colour styling of keyboard to help find symbols
The full deployment relies on setting up a few different resources:
In Resources\Keyboards you will find the current XML keyboards. Set this as your starting folder in (Right click ->) Management Console -> Visuals -> Startup Keyboard and "Folder containing dynamic keyboards"
Several keys are hooked up to bespoke key bindings. You can find our keybindings in Resources\shared-settings\keybindings.json
The snippets references are in the snippets subfolder.
For these settings you can either copy-paste into your own respective files (e.g. Configure User Snippets and find the corresponding file) or you can set up a [symbolic link(https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/mklink) via windows command line to the appropriate location in %APPDATA%\Code\User
