[Question] Can I disable everything and only use EasyClick?

[neumannjan]

Question
I am an active user of win, mac and linux. I indeed do switch between all three OSes regularly. In general, I try to make my keyboard shortcut setups on all three systems as close as possible, to be able to switch easily. On Mac I use the app called Homerow. It works as follows: with cmd+shift+spacebar you get EasyClick. With cmd+shift+J you get the ability to scroll windows, which goes away when you press Esc. That's all it does.

It seems that win-vind is the only app to offer me the same capability on Windows. However, even though I'm an avid user of vim, I do feel quite overwhelmed by all the capabilities of win-vind. While it seems that it is a super powerful application and I'd probably benefit from learning it eventually, I don't really want to right now. I'm simply used to the workflow I have already, and it gets me 90% to the ideal, while being near-exactly replicable on all 3 OSes.

Tl;dr is there a way to just use EasyClick and nothing else?

Thanks.

[pit-ray]

Yes, you can use only the EasyClick feature with the optimized performance.

I show the sample .vindrc in the below.

version tiny
set initmode=i  " Insert mode

" Overwrite default bindings into the dummy <f20> key
imap <esc-left> <f20>
imap <ctrl-]> <f20>
imap <f8> <f20>
imap <esc-down> <f20>

" Define with your favorite bindings.
imap <ctrl-shift-space> <easyclick><click_left>

" Scan UI objects asynchronously  (Optional)
set uiacachebuild

" Hold UI cache for 5 sec. (Optional)
set uiacachebuild_lifetime=5000

" Generate a cache between 0.5 and 2.0 seconds after the operation stops.  (Optional)
set uiacachebuild_staybegin=500
set uiacachebuild_stayend=2000

Firstly, you remove all mapping in the initial mode with map command, which is the same way as Vim. In the sample .vindrc, the initial mode is set to the insert mode. Next, define the mapping for EasyClick with your favorite keys. Optionally, you can use the uiacachebuild option to scan the UI objects asynchronously and efficiently reuse the cache.

Thanks.

[kwonoj]

@pit-ray This works great, mind if I ask additional questions?

Is there way to control click behavior once entered easyclick mode with certain bindings? I want to either ctrl+click / or normal click once after enabling easyclick, instead of having separate keybindings for easyclick_left vs easyclick_mid (or else).

Also, is there a scroll mode keybindings as well?

[pit-ray]

@kwonoj
I don't know if I caught your question correctly, but now easyclick is an independent command <easyclick>, not `<easyclick_left>, etc.
https://pit-ray.github.io/win-vind/cheat_sheet/functions/#easyclick

As with Vim, you can define the user-defined sequential command, which allows you to control the behavior after the <easyclick>. For example, map <s-f><s-f> <easyclick><click_right> and so on.

However, functions such as long pressing the control key have not yet been implemented. #41, #69.

Thanks.

[kwonoj]

@pit-ray Thanks for the answer. I'm trying couple to see if it works as intended, so far it looks like I'm misunderstanding or misconfiguration something.

The basic crux I want to achieve are

• easyclick allows click with kbd combination:
  This option in homerow summarizes the behavior I'm trying to achieve

once easyclick combination is entered, this option allows to trigger click only if certain kbd (space / enter in this case). The kbd input can be combined with modifiers, so for example I grabbed an element in the web browser, then ctrl-enter triggers ctrl-click, and normal enter triggers normal click.

• scroll mode
  a key combination that enables hjkl triggers scroll event until exiting mode.