Feature request: simultaneous key presses

[chumpyy]

Is there a way to map two simultaneous key presses to another key?
E.g. Simultaneously pressing 'Q' and 'W' would be mapped to '~'.

The idea is to use such simultaneous-combos to avoid difficult finger stretches or to trigger specific macros/functionalities.
Clearly, finger stretches and macros can be triggered with non-simultaneous combos or through layers, but it seems my brain has a lot more ease with this notion of simultaneous-combos than more layers (at least for the moment).

Some other examples that I have seen mentioned include:

• 'A' and 'S' for 'CTRL' (instead of a homerow mod)
• 'P' and '[' for ''
• 'Z' and 'X' for 'CTRL + 'Z' (undo)
• 'X' and 'C' for 'CTRL' + 'C' (copy)
• 'X' and 'V' for 'CTRL' + 'V' (paste)
• 'A' and 'F' for 'ESCAPE'

Many thanks for any ideas on how to create such a behavior using the current Bazecor capabilities or information on whether such a feature has been considered/planned.

[ciberado]

I'm currently experimenting with Kanata[1] to get this functionality. Current results look very promising, although I agree it would be awesome if we had direct support to chords (I think that's the technical name to call this kind of key convinations).

[1] https://github.com/jtroo/kanata

[alexpargon]

@ciberado @chumpyy

Guess what, there IS a chord plugin on Kaleidoscope! we will have to support it but it's there for you to use if you create a mod of the keyboard FW.

this feature is pretty high on our expected releases list, so it should be ready soon™

[graarh]

any chances of having it for bazecor?))