A brief reflection and look at how far our community has come since joining. I’ve been in the mechanical keyboard hobby for a very long time. It started as a high school student’s search for a keyboard for writing novels back in the 2008-2009 school year. I thought I wanted to be an author and I felt I needed a keyboard that I could sit down to at my desk and just write. After researching, joining forums, and saving money, I made my first purchase in the hobby, a blank black Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2. I still own this keyboard and while it is heavily modded now, it remains one of my all-time favorites. My HHKB Pro2 with MitchCapped Accents Many people would have stopped there, but keyboards became a hobby. I enjoyed learning about them, and early on, I enjoyed hunting for them in thrift shops. I would dig through bins at Goodwill and Salvation Army while popping keycaps off with paperclips looking for mechanical switches. I searched for a birthday Model M...
May 7, 2024
***edit: ijkl and hjkl are not usable because existing bindings cannot be overwritten. full email copied below:
"Thank you for contacting us. The customisation that you are trying to do is not yet possible unfortunately. The reason is that you can transfer FN layer functions only to keys without any FN layer function, in this case, you can easily transfer left, down and right arrows to j,k,l but Up arrow won’t be able to be moved to the “i” key because this key has the FN layer function ‘ins’ already programmed. When you move the arrows to other keys, you duplicate them, they will always remain usable via WASD keys when you press the FN key. However if you still want to move the arrows to j,k,l and maybe ‘O’ for example, please follow the below step by step explanation: First, choose between the layers 1,2,3 by pressing FN + R SHIFT, the left LED under the space bar will light up to indicate which layer you are using (the default layer has no LED on) Second step: Enter the programming mode by pressing FN + R Ctrl. Then to duplicate the right arrow onto the “l” key, press FN + L, then press FN + D, then press PN to save the change. Then to duplicate the bottom arrow onto the “k” key press FN + K, then press FN + S, then press PN to save the change. Then to duplicate the left arrow onto the “j” key, press FN + J, then press FN + A, then press PN to save the change. Then to duplicate the up arrow onto the “o” key, press FN + O, then press FN + W, then press PN to save the change. Exit the programming mode by pressing FN + R Ctrl. Let us know if you have any questions."
Oh man... this might be a deal breaker for me especially considering the manual and the description on the ikbc website seem to indicated that fn + key programming is supposed to be possible.
Thanks for the info though!