Xah Fly Keys News

By Xah Lee. Date: 2024-04-07. Last updated: 2024-04-23.

2024-04-23 added a russian layout

2024-04-22

2024-04-22 Major rewrite the keyboard layout code.

Before, to define a new layout, you have to create a alist of key mappings:

now, you just draw a text diagram:

Lots new layouts, some esoteric removed.

2023-03-18 now Escape by default activates command mode, but only when emacs runs in GUI mode. [see Emacs: Xah Fly Keys Design, Binding Escape Key]
2022-10-25 to 2022-10-26 More major internal change. No user visible change. xah-fly--key-char is now gone. Replaced by xah-fly--convert-kbd-str. Explicitly named keymaps e.g. xah-fly-Rp2p1-key-map or xah-fly-c-key-map are gone. Now their keymap is just part of xah-fly-leader-key-map. Much simpler.
2022-10-22 major internal change. Variable xah-fly-layouts holds a list of layouts. Function xah-fly-keys-set-layout no longer support M-x customize. Reason: supporting it makes the code much more complex.
2022-09-11 major change and fix for colemak dh layouts, now accurate names: colemak-dhm, colemak-dhm-angle, colemak-dhk
2022-06-11 Xah Fly Keys now on nonGnu ELPA. lots other code updates in past year.
2021-06-23 added 3 more keys to neo2 layout. by sieman, pull request #122
2021-06-23 added bepo layout, by brabalan. pull request #121.
2021-05-19 added layouts • carpalx-qgmlwy • carpalx-qgmlwb • carpalx-qfmlwy. Thanks to uwusual
2021-02-21 now supports pt-nativo layout (for Portuguese). Thanks to xavierpinho. [see Portuguese Ergonomic Keyboard Layout: pt-Nativo]
2021-02-09 now supports ergo layouts for germany: neo2, koy, adnw. Thanks to VitruvianVice.
2020-07-12 the old version of xah fly keys before the key engine change on 2020-04-27 is now at xah-fly-keys_old_2020-04-18.el
2020-04-27 Major engine rewrite, by Dan Langlois and Will Dey (wi11dey). Big thank you. Now, xah fly keys has priority, won't have the very annoying problem in modes like magit and org. In next few days am going to update the customization page. Vast majority of code will work as is. If you have problem, goto xahlee discord, or file a bug report.