WhatTheFar’s dotfiles

This setup is heavily inspired from Mathias’s dotfiles

Features

• Access control and escape on the home row
• Navigate (up/down/left/right) via the home row
• Navigate to previous/next word via the home row
• Launch commonly-used apps via global keyboard shortcuts

Supercharge caps lock key

By repurposing the anachronistic caps lock key, we can make control and escape accessible via the home row.

• Tap caps lock for escape
• Hold caps lock for control

Say goodbye to Emacs pinky. 👋

(S)uper (D)uper Mode

To activate, push the s and d keys simultaneously and hold them down. Now you're in (S)uper (D)uper Mode. It's like a secret keyboard inside your keyboard. (Whoa.) It's optimized for keeping you on the home row, or very close to it. Now you can:

• Use h / j / k / l for left/down/up/right respectively
• Use a for option (AKA alt)
• Use f for command
• Use space for shift
• Use a + j / k for page down / page up
• Use i / o to move to the previous/next tab
• Use u / p to go to the first/last tab (in most apps)
• Use a + h / l to move to previous/next word (in most apps)

📣 Shout-out to Karabiner's Simultaneous vi Mode for providing the inspiration for (S)uper (D)uper Mode. ⌨:neckbeard:✨

Hyper key for quickly launching apps

macOS doesn't have a native hyper key. But thanks to Karabiner-Elements, we can create our own. In this setup, we'll use the right option key as our hyper key.

With a new modifier key defined, we open a whole world of possibilities. I find it especially useful for providing global shortcuts for launching apps.

Default app keybindings

• hyper + b to open Google Chrome ("B" for "Browser")
• hyper + c to open LINE ("C for "Chat")
• hyper + d to open Discord ("D" for "Discord")
• hyper + e to open Visual Studio Code ("E" for "Editor")
• hyper + f to open Fork ("F" for "Fork")
• hyper + m to open Spotify ("M" for "Music")
• hyper + s to open Slack ("S" for "Slack")
• hyper + t to open iTerm2 ("T" for "Terminal")

Prerequisite

• Set Apple ID for App Store
• Run the following codes to:
  • Install Homebrew
  • Install oh-my-zsh
  • Install zinit

# install Homebrew
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

# install zinit
# (follow official doc)

Bootstrapping

Warning: do not run this until you know what it does

./bootstrap.sh

Manual Setups

Accessibility

Zoom

Go to System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Zoom

• Use scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom -> ^ Control
• Zoom follows the keyboard focus

Three finger dragging

Go to System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Mouse & Trackpad -> Trackpad Options...

• Enable dragging -> three finger drag

Alfred

In advanced setting page, set preferences folder to alfred3.

References

Mathias’s dotfiles

Toward a more useful keyboard

License

Copyright 2019 Jakpat Mingmongkolmitr

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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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