GokuRakuJoudo

And for keyboard remapping on macOS there’s GokuRakuJoudo: https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo

That's the sort of reason that made me switch to US Qwerty a couple of years ago and as a programmer I should have done that from the very beginning instead of staying on Azerty BE. The shortcuts of most programs have been thought for Qwerty (thinking about you Vim). It made my developer's life much easier. I am on macOS and I had to install Karabiner and goku (https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo) to get the french accented letters. Now right-alt+e gives me é, right-shift-alt+e gives me è, etc. BTW, I love Elixir.

Looks related to this: https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo

On mac I use goku[1] to define custom key bindings for karabiner elements. The ux feels much better than autohotkey, and I wish I had something similar on linux or windows. [1]https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo

Karabiner has already been mentioned here but I'll add that goku (https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo) is THE way to setup Karabiner and it can be hard to overcome the extremely verbose and unergonomic default json config of Karabiner otherwise. Goku also makes it trivial to add shortcuts which are activated by quickly pressing one key while another is held. I use this for the kind of launch mode described in the OP. eg. w + e = editor (Intellij), w + r = chrome, w + f = firefox.. The drawback to these shortcuts is that they can unintentionally be activated when regularly typing since we don't always release a key before pressing the next. That's only happened seldomly for me though since "w" isn't a frequently used letter and I've set the shortcut activation window pretty low so the w + <key> key has to be pressed essentially imme

Karabiner + Goku[1] [1]https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo

Karabiner does the actual remapping. https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/ and https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo lets you write your keymappings in a text editor and translate it into the weird XML/JSON syntax so you don't have to use the GUI editor.

If you're using Karabiner, I HIGHLY recommend putting the time in to learn how to use Goku[1]. I initially found it when trying to find an easier way to express the extremely verbose Karabiner config json but was turned off by the unfamiliar clojure-like EDN data format and the somewhat lacking documentation. A couple years later I had the right combination of free time and frustration from managing my Karabiner config that I actually took the time to setup Goku. I've found it not only drastically simplified the setup I already had, but made it so much easier to extend it and really take advantage of Karabiner. It mostly provides more convenient syntax for what you do in Karabiner, but it also provides new abstractions that it converts into the appropriate rules. "simlayers" for example are keyboard layers entered by pressing the trigger

https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements and https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo for me

If you're using karabiner, you might want to use goku to configure it: much nicer: https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo

My only exposure to EDN was through Goku Karabiner compiler (https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo) but it does seem like a nice configuration syntax. Quite readable.

Tekezo [released a new build](https://twitter.com/tekezo/status/1303725699061092352) for [Karabiner Elements](https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements) that works on latest macOS. It's super powerful tool to rebind keybindings especially when combined with [Goku compiler](https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo) that transforms few lines of edn into 1,000s lines of JSON. My config in JSON is more than 30,000 lines but in edn is [just 800 lines](https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/dotfiles/blob/master/karabiner/karabiner.edn).

+1 on karabiner and BTT; if using karabiner, perhaps check out goku: it gives you a much nicer language for writing karabiner profiles than just slogging them out in pure json. https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo

You can write low level code to interject all keystrokes and program keys. https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo

I happily used Karabiner for years but only to handle my caps lock remapping. It's not bad. I just generally like having as few dependencies as possible. I definitely needed Hammerspoon for other stuff, so if it can cover my one use case for Karabiner as well, then I only need to use one program instead of two. One specific reason I want to go with Hammerspoon in the long run for key remapping is that I plan to do more complicated things, like setting up key layers. And even if that's possible with Karabiner, I'd rather maintain the complexity with Lua code rather than Karabiner's JSON configuration, which is complicated enough that someone created a separate tool[1] just to generate the configuration. I should note that one of the maintainers of Hammerspoon specifically recommended[2] using Karabiner instead of Hammerspoon for key remapp