This is a configuration file for GokuRakuJoudo which in turn generates a Karabiner profile.

Some things rely upon the fact that the Colemak layout (and its corresponding layer) is used. Single press mod keys are used as "power key combos" and a trigger things like toggling reader mode in Safari, switching between editor and terminal in VSCode or sending the tmux prefix in Kitty, the fast, lightweight, terminal emulator.

Karabiner is a powerful and stable keyboard customizer for macOS. Goku is a tool to let you manage your Karabiner configuration with ease, since Karabiner uses JSON for its very verbose, complex config file, while Goku uses the "optimized for typing" edn format.

• press and release LCmd to switch to previously used app
• press and release RCmd and, depending on the current app get this:
  • toggle between terminal and editor in VSCode
  • toggle reading mode in Safari
  • send tmux prefix in Kitty
  • toggle left pane with notes list in Drafts
• press and release ROpt and, depending on the current app get this:
  • toggle between left and right editors in split-screen VSCode
  • toggle tab overview in Safari
  • etc
• get an extended layer on pressing and holding the space bar
• etc

Special mention: there is an experimental branch where some settings are active, like sequence layers (press shift, quickly followed by s to send S, or LCmd quickly followed by t to send Cmt+T) or getting 4 different outcomes from a single key. Check it out.

1. Install Karabiner-Elements
2. Create a profile named 'Default' in Karabiner-Elements. (It will generate a karabiner.json file under ~/.config/karabiner/ folder for goku to use.)
3. Install Goku
4. Install files from this repo.

# curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kiinoda/goku/master/karabiner.edn > ~/.config/karabiner.edn
# goku

Various parts were adapted from other internet sources, indicated below.

• Kun Chen - k-goku - document structure and general inspiration
• John Lindquist - dotfiles - emoji layer contents and from/to templates needed to "translate" between QWERTY and Colemak
• Nikita Voloboev - dotfiles - general inspiration, properly using conditions in rules
• Xah Lee - Banning the Shift Key - the seed for the sequence layers
• Øystein Bech Gadmar - Colemak Forum - Extend Layer - the general organization of the extend layer