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diff --git a/Leader-Key.md b/Leader-Key.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..bf4d5456d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Leader-Key.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +# The Leader key: A new kind of modifier + +If you've ever used Vim, you know what a Leader key is. If not, you're about to discover a wonderful concept. :) Instead of hitting Alt+Shift+W for example (holding down three keys at the same time), what if you could hit a _sequence_ of keys instead? So you'd hit our special modifier (the Leader key), followed by W and then C (just a rapid succession of keys), and something would happen. + +That's what `KC_LEAD` does. Here's an example: + +1. Pick a key on your keyboard you want to use as the Leader key. Assign it the keycode `KC_LEAD`. This key would be dedicated just for this -- it's a single action key, can't be used for anything else. +2. Include the line `#define LEADER_TIMEOUT 300` somewhere in your keymap.c file, probably near the top. The 300 there is 300ms -- that's how long you have for the sequence of keys following the leader. You can tweak this value for comfort, of course. +3. Within your `matrix_scan_user` function, do something like this: + +``` +LEADER_EXTERNS(); + +void matrix_scan_user(void) { + LEADER_DICTIONARY() { + leading = false; + leader_end(); + + SEQ_ONE_KEY(KC_F) { + register_code(KC_S); + unregister_code(KC_S); + } + SEQ_TWO_KEYS(KC_A, KC_S) { + register_code(KC_H); + unregister_code(KC_H); + } + SEQ_THREE_KEYS(KC_A, KC_S, KC_D) { + register_code(KC_LGUI); + register_code(KC_S); + unregister_code(KC_S); + unregister_code(KC_LGUI); + } + } +} +``` + +As you can see, you have three function. you can use - `SEQ_ONE_KEY` for single-key sequences (Leader followed by just one key), and `SEQ_TWO_KEYS` and `SEQ_THREE_KEYS` for longer sequences. Each of these accepts one or more keycodes as arguments. This is an important point: You can use keycodes from **any layer on your keyboard**. That layer would need to be active for the leader macro to fire, obviously.
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