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1. Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 16:24:04 UTC Bernie

   I've always remapped the useless Caps Lock key to CTRL key. There's a setting for it on both X11 and Wayland.

   Some #vim users remap it to ESC, another frequently used key that's hard to reach from the home row.

   So why can't we have both? Caps Lock can act as ESC when pressed alone, or CTRL when pressed in combination with another key.

   Turns out multiple people already thought about this. Here's a simple Python script that does this:
   https://github.com/wbolster/evcape

   #programming #linux #wayland

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 16:27:48 UTC Bernie

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     Don't want a Python script running as root? There's a whole bunch of different designs that work in #wayland:
     https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24926031

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 16:40:38 UTC Bernie

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     Here's another one written in #Rust which drops privileges after opening the evdev input device and can be configured via #Dyon scripts:

     https://codeberg.org/valpackett/evscript/src/branch/trunk/README.md

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 16:44:44 UTC Bernie

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     First time I hear about #Dyon. I'll give it a try, but I'm skeptical that the world needs another dynamically typed, interpreted language, even if it's inspired by #Rust.

     https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/dyon#readme

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 19:22:55 UTC Bernie

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     • micheal65536

     @micheal65536 Bash has its own place. Have you seen Python programs trying to copy files recursively or launch a program and read its output? They are 10x the complexity, and usually buggy (they buffer all the output before starting to parse it, they forget to check the return code, they don't search for the program in the path...)

   • micheal65536 (micheal65536@mastodon.test.micheal65536.duckdns.org)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 19:23:05 UTC micheal65536

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     @codewiz It doesn't.

     We already have Python.

     And Perl if you don't like Python.

     And JavaScript if you're making a webpage (or apparently anything else now as well, thanks Node/React/Electron).

     And Lua if Python's too complicated for you.

     And BASH if you hate yourself (calling BASH "dynamically typed" is a bit of a stretch I guess).

     And PHP if you're making a website but it's 200x and Node.JS doesn't exist yet.