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Good evening r/emk.

Frequently, I see people asking where can they find inspiration for their keymap. Many threads on keymap discussions are started, links are thrown around, left and right but there is no structure, no centralisation, no curation.

Consequently, I created a website, https://keymapdb.com, to meet this demand and solve those problems.

KeymapDB is a public and open-source online database for keymaps of programmable keyboards, with a focus on QMK ergonomic mechanical keyboards. You can filter full-fledged keymaps like Miryoku by key count, firmware, keyboard, stagger, languages, OS, home row mods, and more!

The site already contains 40 or so keymaps gathered from the keymap

I'm starting to grow out of the default git workflow for QMK and wish to separate my keymap commits from core QMK commits.

In the documentation page on git best practices, you're told to create a new personal branch on top of qmk:master in your fork of the qmk_firmware repo. You commit your personal keymap files and changes in that commit and every so often, you rebase your commits on top of the HEAD of qmk:master.

It works fine until you want to use a pending core PR and/or contribute to QMK.

You have to juggle and keep up to date the PR commits that target qmk:develop as well as the qmk:master commits. You also have t

Many people have looked at the letter frequencies of different natural languages and sometimes collected stats on the frequency of different n-grams as well. A smaller amount of people included special characters such as space, digits, and curly brackets in their frequency analysis. Another comparatively miniscule group of people collected stats on the frequency of Emacs commands they were executing. Despite all that, for some reasons, I can't find any stats on modifier frequency online. You know, Shift, Control, Command, etc.

Naturally, this will vary from OS to OS — Windows and Linux use Control much more than MacOS does —, and from program to program — the Kakoune text editor relies more

How do you call the circled thumb keys on these pictures of u/OBOSOB's Arch 36?:

http://i.imgur.com/0nXylbO.png http://i.imgur.com/ttujp6Z.png

(The question is applicable to pretty much all keyboards with a thumb cluster though, not just the Arch 36)

Assuming the white thumb key is the home thumb key in which the thumb rests in idle state, is the circled key the inner or the outer thumb key? Vote in the poll and let us know your reasoning in the comments.

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What's the lowest one can go and still keep a non-uniform "depth-stagger" (i.e. the pinky column is higher than the middle finger column and so on...)?

The strongest contenders of a relatively lo-pro dished keyboard are u/theKM's dished kyria and u/Okke's Tightyl, though, I don't know what's the height of any of these so I'm eyeballing it

http://i.imgur.com/lNJS2zS.png http://i.imgur.com/Hu5wXB2.png

The autocompletion file supports all user commands, all its subcommands and options. For commands that take in a .json file, it autocompletes with the name of .json files in the current working directory. This does not autocomplete the names of keyboards.

To use the file, just copy paste the content of this gist into a new file called _qmk in one of the directories of your $fpath (for example at /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion). Then add compdef _qmk qmk anywhere in .zshrc.

It does not in