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You must have missed the fact that you can type emojis on the touch bar

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The fact this is supposed to be some kind of a feature on a device marked "Pro" is a sign how deluded Apple has become.

Gotta use more emojis in my Swift code now.

With a "\u{24}" up

Maybe I can remap some emoji to Vim functions.

The whole point is that you could have contextual 'buttons' that are appropriate for what you're doing in <App>

But that sounds too much like an easy solution for Vim users, and what would they have to piss and moan about then?

I already have contextual buttons. I remap keys to what I want, that's one of the main benefits of Vim's multi modal system. I don't need an expensive gimmick to do so.

So, to summarise your point of view:

Vim has contextual physical button remapping, and it's a positive thing.

Apple adds a hardware + software feature to provide a context-sensitive multi-touch region allowing for multiple types of physical input & visual feedback in any application, and it's a gimmick?

Gotcha.

It's a gimmick because this is already possible, even without yet another piece of glass to pay for and repair and that comes at the cost of physical keys It looks flashy and futuristic and cool, but it adds no value that could not be gained elsewhere, cheaper, with greater utility.

I'm also not only talking about vim here. Nearly any PC game in the past two decades or more allows key rebinding. Many even allow macros. Most GUI IDEs offer the same. This isn't new.

Lastly, you seem to want to characterize me as "pissing and moaning". Personal attacks won't get you anywhere with me.

Oh right, silly me. I forgot that traditional individual physical keys can turn into sliders/scrubbers, display waveforms, show scrollable image previews contextually.

> Nearly any PC game in the past two decades or more allows key rebinding.

Right, I forgot that mapping X to Up is the same as showing a colour picker slider when you need to choose a colour.

They can't, but there's a big display in front of me that can show these things and I can see it without looking down. And yes, mapping game controls can be as simple as you describe or extremely complex, especially if you involve software outside the game such as the drivers for most gaming boards.

You seem to be far too hostile for a conversation about a piece of glass on a computer. You should take a break.

I love the fact that they replaced Esc with... Siri. Now I can tell Siri to move me between normal and insert mode.

"Hey Siri, escape colon percent s slash stupid slash courageous slash g enter"

"That's an interesting question, Jake."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyLqUf4cdwc

For a good laugh.

Add VR goggles and this is the future of software engineering.

"Hey Siri, ... ysiw(ea, param<Esc>"

I guess it's time to remap CapsLock to ESC. Something we all should have done a long ago anyway.

Caps is remapped to control though!

Time to remap control to ESC then!

Eventually, no one else will be able to use my computer as all keys will be remapped. That's what I call physical security!

You can already do that if you type Dvorak :P

I'm in college, and every time I turn an exercise in the assistant takes my keyboard, tries to navigate Vim with my Dvorak setup and stares blankly as something completly different than what they expected happened.

That sounds more like an emacs thing to do.

Well, you could map control to escape then :-)

You can map it to both, actually. :)

I saw something yesterday to the effect that you can have your cake (Control) and eat it (ESC) too. The Caps Lock key can be set so that if it is pressed and released alone, it sends Escape, but if you use it as a modifier, Ctrl-A, say, then it's Control. I think that's clever, but my opinion might change after I try it.

That sounds interesting, do you have a link?

Here's another comment of mine explaining how I do it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12810873

Here's a comment of mine elsewhere explaining how I do exactly this (and more): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12810873

caps is remapped to control when holding, esc when pressing!

This is the proper response.

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