v0.21.0: Combos by key legends and experimental Kanata parser

The highlights in this release are an experimental parser for Kanata configurations and ability to specify combos via contents/legends of the triggering keys.

Features

• Add an experimental parser for Kanata configuration files (#95)

  • Currently supports defsrc, layers via deflayer, combos via defchordsv2, and include/defvar/defalias
  • Physical layouts are automatically selected depending on keys used in defsrc, ranging from a 60% to a full size layout
  • Output legends can only be customized via raw_binding_map
  • Feel free to open a new discussion for any feedback, it'd help me prioritize any future improvements

• Add a new way to specify combo positions: using trigger_keys/tk. This lets you do QMK-like combo specs, where you list the legends for the keys that would be used to trigger a combo

  • By default a full match for the legend will be searched for, but it will fall back to matching only the center/tap legends if not found

  • Example:

    layers:
      base:
        - { h: Ctrl, t: J }
        - { h: Alt,  t: K }
        ...
    combos:
      # below are all equivalent
      - { p: [0, 1],                                 k: Esc }
      - { tk: [{ h: Ctrl, t: J }, { h: Alt, t: K }], k: Esc }
      - { tk: [J, K],                                k: Esc }

• Add a new physical layout spec: zmk_keyboard. This typically corresponds to ZMK keyboard name used in <keyboard>.keymap, such as zmk_keyboard: corne

  • Internally this is used as an alias to map to other physical layout types; see the new physical layouts documentation for details
  • keymap parse will output this spec by default after parsing ZMK keymaps

New layouts

• Add tsuru physical layout
• Add corrected lotus58 layout for its ZMK definition
• Add support for Corne v4 layouts with extra keys to corne_rotated (#161)

ZMK drawing workflow

• Optimize fetching modules from west.yml and turn it on by default
  • Excludes fetching ZMK and Zephyr, aiming to only get user-specified extra modules
• Improve behavior when there are errors in the parse/draw, specifically when fail_on_error isn't set
  • Now the workflow will show as failed when there are any errors, but commit/upload will happen for successful operations if fail_on_error is not set
• Add a debug_mode flag that sets keymap CLI's --debug flag and echoes the commands run inside the actions
• Add install_version input that lets you specify keymap-drawer version to use. Ignored if install_branch is set

Full Changelog: v0.20.0...v0.21.0

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