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My configuration on Karabiner Elements to tweak my macOS

Principles

  • keep on the home row
  • leverage touch typing technique
  • be emacs friendly
  • I might be switching to evil-mode in Emacs. Maybe, make macos have vim keybindings?

Attempted tweaks:

  • [X] Launch Emacs with Command Key and “j”
  • [X] Launch Brave browser after pressing Command Key and letter “k”
  • [X] Launch Chrome with Command Key and “l”
  • [X] Launch Terminal with Command Key and “ç”
  • [X] Launch Slack with Command Key and “u”
  • [X] Launch Messages with Command Key and “i”
  • [X] Restore macOS System Preferences on keyboard modifiers and transport all previous tweaks (on Control, Caps Lock, Option, Command, and FN to Karabiner). Use karabiner
  • [X] Make the macbook Air keyboard be more like my previous UX of running Linux-kernel based OS on a windows keyboard
    • [X] Make caps lock key on hardware behave like control
    • [X] Make FN key on hardware behave like caps lock
    • [X] Make control key on hardware behave like FN
    • [X] Make option key on hardware behave like command
    • [X] Make command key on hardware behave like option
  • [X] Add emacs keybindings to have Emacs everywhere
  • [X] Fix copy, paste, and cut. Make it be Emacs like as M-w, C-y, and C-w.
  • [X] Make Close Tab be like Emacs C-x k. Be careful with C-w since it is being used for Cut!
  • [X] Make select all be Emacs like: C-x h. Control+a (windows tweak) will cause problems with Control+a from Emacs (beginning of line).
  • [ ] Make search be Emacs like (Control-S instead of Command f). It is not just tweaking the config for windows to be like Emacs. There is also control-g stuff on search (going backwards) and the importance of control g as escape in Emacs. We want C-s and no problem with C-g
  • [ ] Make undo be Emacs like.

Observations:

I was using too much my left to press the left-command (which is binded to my left-option key). This started to hurt. Hence, I am now using the escape as left-command. This is specially relevant for app switching via shortcuts.