cursors

25 Nov 2020

I just realized: using alt to mouse-select multiple cursors in VS Code does not trigger the OSL to fall back. Is that a task I do with the dictionary instead? No, dictionary can’t help there. HMM!
Perhaps a key on the symbol layer that does a TO(BASE). yup, that works!
I’ve also printed out some cheat-sheets, and now I guess nothing is stopping me from developing some muscle memory…

I’ve started a tiny bit of coding with steno. It’s alive! Starting to think about building my own “single stroke commands” dictionary, but because it’s so many different chords, thinking of building a generator that takes an input of all the chords for each modifier (plus a few others for nav/cursor control), and then it prints out all the hundreds of permutations! Some things I’m learning about dictionary entries as I do this:

• a / is present to delineate strokes

• a - is present to delineate left-hand vs right-hand, but only

  1. if there are no left-hand keys in the chord
  2. if writing it down without a - would show ambiguity (HRPB is either HR-PB “license”, or H-RPB “hit-and-run”)
  3. if there is no ambiguity? (e.g. *ET/K-L “ethical”)
  4. only if there’s also no *.

  Does Learn Plover! have anything to say on this subject?

  When defining dictionary definitions by hand, you should be sure to include the hyphen when appropriate

  I think I can handle that. Why not always generate a - until I see it break?

One final note, someone’s blog recommended keeping the dictionary handy, that being able to quickly add or edit definitions was really helpful. I wonder if I could set up a single key in my layer or a brief in a dictionary to run that Plover function?