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Still configuring my "new" Macbook...
I'm trying to combine using a 60% keyboard, which works pretty well for its price along with my shortcut maximalism.
This leads to some collisions that I never experimented, but I'm kind of solving them with 2 things:
Allows you to remap keys PER DEVICE. That's super cool, as different keyboards have different layouts, so some remaps only make sense in a single keyboard.
I also imported a script from this blog that maps caps lock to escape when pressed alone, and to ctrl when pressed in "chord".
That's great, because the major drawback of the 60% kbd IMO is the key
to the left of "1", which is esc, backtick, and tilde. The way to
make one or the other involve a tiny fn key in the keyboard and
maybe shift also.
All in all, between the usual imap jk <esc> and this karabiner config, I'm quite satisfied with the keyboard usage.
To manage windows and sizes and screens, rectangle is a nice free app that provides a few useful shortcuts.
The ultimate configuration layer is Hammerspoon, which is some sort of AutoIt for MacOS, and it's configured in Lua.
The same way I created ratemu about 15 years ago, now it's time to create ratemu.lua.
I'm taking https://github.com/jorenvo/ratspoon as a base, and my plan is to only add things on a need basis.