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* [9front] program to bind/rebind keys
@ 2021-06-04 18:20 binary cat
  2021-06-04 20:02 ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
  2021-06-04 22:12 ` Stuart Morrow
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: binary cat @ 2021-06-04 18:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9front

The program would operate by opening /dev/kbd, then binding its output
to /dev/kbd.
It would read a list of keybindings (from a file and/or command line options),
then operate in a loop of reading a key from (the old) /dev/kbd, checking if it
matches any of the bindings given to it. If it finds a match, it executes the
action associated with it. Otherwise, it passes the keypress on.

This could be used for global keyboard shortcuts by wrapping around rio,
or for per-program keyboard shortcuts.

`awk` is surprisingly close to working for this, but it has a few problems,
both with reading input delimited by NUL instead of LF, and with
non-printable characters in regular expressions.

I'm up to provide a bounty for this, although first I'd like to have a rough
idea of how difficult it would be to either write such a program, or to
fix the problems with `awk`, so I know how much a reasonable bounty
would be.

-- binarycat

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* Re: [9front] program to bind/rebind keys
  2021-06-04 18:20 [9front] program to bind/rebind keys binary cat
@ 2021-06-04 20:02 ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
  2021-06-04 22:12 ` Stuart Morrow
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir @ 2021-06-04 20:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9front

Quoth binary cat <dogedoge61@gmail.com>:
> The program would operate by opening /dev/kbd, then binding its output
> to /dev/kbd.
> It would read a list of keybindings (from a file and/or command line options),
> then operate in a loop of reading a key from (the old) /dev/kbd, checking if it
> matches any of the bindings given to it. If it finds a match, it executes the
> action associated with it. Otherwise, it passes the keypress on.
> 
> This could be used for global keyboard shortcuts by wrapping around rio,
> or for per-program keyboard shortcuts.
> 
> `awk` is surprisingly close to working for this, but it has a few problems,
> both with reading input delimited by NUL instead of LF, and with
> non-printable characters in regular expressions.
> 
> I'm up to provide a bounty for this, although first I'd like to have a rough
> idea of how difficult it would be to either write such a program, or to
> fix the problems with `awk`, so I know how much a reasonable bounty
> would be.
> 
> -- binarycat

One of the easy approaches used in riow[1] is to catch all keyboard
events that involve a specific modifier, Mod4 in this case, export it
via fs, and convert to plain text form in another small program.
Those then are used to do window management.

[1] https://git.sr.ht/~ft/riow


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* Re: [9front] program to bind/rebind keys
  2021-06-04 18:20 [9front] program to bind/rebind keys binary cat
  2021-06-04 20:02 ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
@ 2021-06-04 22:12 ` Stuart Morrow
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Stuart Morrow @ 2021-06-04 22:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 9front

> wrapping around rio,

Also the most correct way to write a screen locker. Right now if
someone has a rio with keyboard-based window management, they can just
close screenlock(1) with the keyboard.

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