VIA support for QMK Tap dance about app HOT 5 CLOSED

I don't exactly know what features are included under the 'tap dance' headline, but having one behavior when you hold a button and another when you tap it is doable in Via.

Check out the list of key codes. If you want to use for instance shift and caps lock, I think the code is MT(MOD_LSFT, KC_CAPS) (wrote that from memory so check for yourself). If you want to change layer and do some other thing I think it's LT(1, KC_CAPS) for example.

You assign key codes by using the any binding.

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Thank you! I didn't realize the features were supported under a different name!

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Tap Dance is different from Mod Tap, or Layer Tap. While VIA supports both Mod Tap and Layer Tap, it does not support Tap Dance.

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This does not appear to work for say remapping a hold of x to cntrl + x.

I have tried with via by using: MT(MOD_LCTL | KC_X, KC_X) but VIA rejects it.

Any suggestions on how it could be achieved?

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Here is the doc about tap dance, which is different from Mod Tap or Layer Tap. It would be really useful to have it in VIA, as it is one of the most unique (and useful) feature of QMK.

https://github.com/samhocevar-forks/qmk-firmware/blob/master/docs/feature_tap_dance.md

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