Simulated presses are keyboard dependent

[davidfoord1]

Issue in rstudiovim

Key presses are simulated incorrectly based on keyboard layout. Trying to add a command like:

map \p "0p

What gets types instead is

map \p ~0p

Looks like my en-UK layout is being converted to an en-US layout.

Investigating in KeyboardSimulator dependency.

Language-based issue is raised in the comments of issue #8.

It appears the input to KeyboardSimulator functions are converted to codes based on the fixed table in keyboard_value.R. For example keybd.press(), in main.R, does some cleaning and parsing of the string of buttons, which is then used as a lookup for keyboard_value. The virtual key code and scan code are ultimately pass to the Windows API C++ function keybd_event() in press.cpp.

The main problem is the scan code always being the same as this is hardware-dependent. It would be good to just use the hardware-independent virtual key code.

Possible solution

I didn't think I'd be looking at the Windows API but here we are. The mapVirtualKey family provides a way to convert from scan codes to virtual key codes. sendInput supersedes keybd_event and can send an input based on a virtual key code. It would be good to have KeyboardSimulator updated with these, but could potentially be implemented in rstudiovim.

[davidfoord1]

Resolved by #2 - Using VkScanKey and SendInput - at least as long as a single keyboard layout is used throughout the session.