defchords with condition

[Fred-Vatin]

Hi,

Do you know if it’s currently possible to trigger a chord only if no key was pressed during the last 1000 ms or any other custom delay ?

Or trigger the chord only if a list of keys were not pressed before ? With key-history maybe.

For instance, trigger this chord only if the previous pressed keys is NOT E. Or even more specific with: if the previous key is E AND was pressed during the last 1000 ms, don’t trigger the chord.

(defchords HomeRowBase $chords-timeout
	(     $L-3                     $R-3     ) (fork del C-del (spc AltGr)) ;; del next word
)

[gerhard-h]

I believe this can help:
(on-idle-fakekey <fake key name> <key action> <idle time>): Activate a fake key action when kanata has been idle for at least idle time milliseconds.

[Fred-Vatin]

on-idle-fakekey triggers the action (the chords in my case) after the idle time, no matter if any keys were tapped during the idle time. So it doesn’t work.

[jtroo]

Seems like there are two feature requests here, neither of which are implemented.

• Have not within switch - this should be straightforward to implement
• Add the capability to use time within switch - this will be more complicated

Some complications with time are that, as an optimization, keyberon ticks don't happen when there is no state to process. There is also no timestamps for key history right now.

Please do file feature requests for these