This is a compatibility package for atom text editor which tries to remap keycodes for your given keyboard layout.
Go in Atom's Settings page, through packages section. Under Community Packages search for "keyboard-localization" and Install it.
Inside Atom's packages management, click Settings, and in the freshly opened panel, either choose an existing Keyboard Layout from the list, or pick a keymap file from the filepicker.
- Prevent default keybindings from being fired
- Keybindings in your foreign keyboard layout
- AltGr-Key
- vim-mode keybindings
- tested on Windows and Linux
- Multi-combo bindings (AltGr+Shift)
- German 105-key "QWERTZ" (
de_DE) - German Neo-Layout (
de_DE-neo) - Spanish (
es_ES) - Spanish Latin (
es_LA) - French (
fr_FR) - Belgian French (
fr_BE) - Canadian French (
fr_CA) - Polish Programmer (
pl_PL) - Danish (
da_DK) - untested - Norwegian (
nb_NO) - untested - Swedish (
sv_SE) - untested - Hungarian (
hu_HU) - untested - Romanian (
ro_RO) - untested - Slovenian (
sl_SL) - untested - Italian (
it_IT) - Portuguese (
pt_PT) - untested - Latvian (
lv_LV) - Portuguese Brazilian (ABNT2) (
pt_BR) - Japanese (
ja_JP) - Czech (
cs_CZ-qwerty)
Keyboard Localization: Keymap Generator)
Generate your mapping by tapping every key in combination with modifiers from your keyboard who differ from the US-Layout.
Copy the generated JSON-keybindings and create a Json-File.
Then set the package setting UseKeyboardLayoutFromPath to your given filename(absolute path).
Feel free to send me Issues/PRs so i can add more keymaps.
- add more foreign Keyboard-Layouts
- write tests
add custom path for keymap file
- Chromium Issue 263724: KeyboardEvent does not match the latest specification
- Chromium Issue 300475: Issues with non US keyboard layout keyboard events or editing
- Chromium Issue 168971: Implement 'locale' attribute in KeyboardEvent
- Atom Issue 35: Right ALT not supported (bad for International Keyboards)
- Atom Issue 37: Foreign keyboard layouts not working
All thanks go to original author -> DavidBadura