Option to customise key repeat rate.

[franciscolourenco]

Hammerspoon KeyEvents repeat rate is bound to the key repeat rate set in the System Preferences.

That means that if you customise the key repeat rate with Karabiner, the key repeat rate of keys mapped with Hammerspoon, is going to be different than the repeat rate set with Karabiner.

On the other hand Karabiner doesn't support macOS Sierra, so there is no way to increase the key repeat rate going forward.

Would it be technically feasible to have a global or newKeyEvent option, that lets the key repeat rate be increased further?

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Example application

local function keyCode(key, modifiers)
  modifiers = modifiers or {}

  return function()
    hs.eventtap.event.newKeyEvent(modifiers, string.lower(key), true):post()
    hs.eventtap.event.newKeyEvent(modifiers, string.lower(key), false):post()
  end
end


hs.hotkey.bind({'ctrl'}, 'j', keyCode('left'), nil, keyCode('left'))
hs.hotkey.bind({'ctrl'}, 'k', keyCode('down'), nil, keyCode('down'))
hs.hotkey.bind({'ctrl'}, 'i', keyCode('up'), nil, keyCode('up'))
hs.hotkey.bind({'ctrl'}, 'l', keyCode('right'), nil, keyCode('right'))

[cmsj]

@aristidesfl I'm not 100% sure if it's wired up to anything, but the prefs UI in Karabiner Elements has options for setting the keyboard repeat rate, and works on macOS Sierra. We could look at adding some API for controlling Hammerspoon's repeat rate, but I'd like to know how things sit with Karabiner Elements first.

[franciscolourenco]

@cmsj I can't find the options for setting the keyboard repeat rate in Karabiner Elements. Can you share a screenshot?

[cmsj]

hmm, for me it's in the preferences as another tab, but I am using an older, third party fork of Elements, so it may not be in the main repo yet.

[franciscolourenco]

Don't see any pull requests with that feature

[franciscolourenco]

It is no longer supported pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements#551

[cmsj]

Oh, damn :(

[franciscolourenco]

This seems to work be working fine with hammerspoon

defaults write NSGlobalDomain KeyRepeat -float 1.3
defaults write NSGlobalDomain InitialKeyRepeat -int 11

[megalithic]

@franciscolourenco could you confirm if this is still working for you? presently not getting the same repeat interval with the repeatfn for a hotkey model bind constructor.

[franciscolourenco]

@megalithic I've not used Hammerspoon for a while, but I still use those settings in macOS. I could test it if it is important.