Problem with tap dance key entry order

[makkus]

So, I'm trying to make it so that tapping an umlaut-able character (a o u) prints the umlaut, tapping once or twice should print the character as is that many times. That's my config:

(defalias
  Ae (unicode Ä)
  Ue (unicode Ü)
  Oe (unicode Ö)
  ae (unicode ä)
  ue (unicode ü)
  oe (unicode ö)
  _ae3 (tap-dance 200 (a (macro a a) (fork @ae @Ae (lsft rsft))))
  _oe3 (tap-dance 200 (o (macro o o) (fork @oe @Ae (lsft rsft))))
  _ue3 (tap-dance 200 (u (macro u u) (fork @ue @Ae (lsft rsft))))
)

Tapping 3 times mostly works, but I'm having a problem when tapping the key twice (say o), and a 3rd (different) key (say t) shortly after, which case it often happens that I get o t o. I assume that is because kanata somehow 'cancels' the tap-dance because it recognizes it's not a matching one, but not sure.

Either way, I would have assumed the order in which keys are pressed would stay the same in both cases, but it looks like the macro is somehow too slow and my 3rd key is registered before it. I guess I could play with the timeout a bit, but was wondering whether there is a better option to do this?

[gerhard-h]

CYou could try (multi a a) instead of macro

If you don't mind the visible backspace tap-dance-eager is/feels more responsive

(tap-dance-eager 200 (
    (macro a) ;; use macro to prevent auto-repeat of the key
    (macro a)
    (macro bspc bspc (fork @ae @Ae (lsft rsft)) )
  )

personly I didn't like tripple tapping or double-tap-hold and went for this tap-hold-wait-correction to type german diacrits on a 40% board

aä  (tap-hold 1 120 a (macro-release-cancel @ä 400 bspc a 600 bspc @ä 600 bspc a ))

edit: nowadays I would suggest looking into defchords (combos) to do üäö.

[jtroo]

You could try tap-dance-eager and use backspaces to erase earlier characters if needed.

[makkus]

Thanks, yes, tap-dance-eager seems to be the ticket, I had to move the fork outside of the macro, because macro does not seem to like it.

I like the idea of tap-hold, but that seemed to wreak havok in my emacs for some reason, couldn't quite figure out what was going on. I'll see how it goes, and I might try out chords later.

For completeness sake, this is what I have and what seems to work for me (for now):

  Ae (unicode Ä)
  Ue (unicode Ü)
  Oe (unicode Ö)
  ae (unicode ä)
  ue (unicode ü)
  oe (unicode ö)
  ss (unicode ß)

  ae_tap (tap-dance-eager 200 (
    (macro a)
    (macro a)
    (macro bspc bspc @ae)
  ))
  Ae_tap (tap-dance-eager 200 (
    (macro S-a)
    (macro S-a)
    (macro bspc bspc @Ae)
  ))
  oe_tap (tap-dance-eager 200 (
    (macro o)
    (macro o)
    (macro bspc bspc @oe)
  ))
  Oe_tap (tap-dance-eager 200 (
    (macro S-o)
    (macro S-o)
    (macro bspc bspc @Oe)
  ))
  ue_tap (tap-dance-eager 200 (
    (macro u)
    (macro u)
    (macro bspc bspc @ue)
  ))
  Ue_tap (tap-dance-eager 200 (
    (macro S-u)
    (macro S-u)
    (macro bspc bspc @Ue)
  ))
  ss_tap (tap-dance-eager 200 (
    (macro s)
    (macro s)
    (macro bspc bspc @ss)
  ))

  ae_fork (fork @ae_tap @Ae_tap (lsft rsft))
  oe_fork (fork @oe_tap @Oe_tap (lsft rsft))
  ue_fork (fork @ue_tap @Ue_tap (lsft rsft))