keyboardlayoutoverrides not working for me (trying to get colemak working)

[pupto-bismol]

here is what my current tridactylrc looks like:

set keyboardlayoutforce true
set keyboardlayoutoverrides.KeyN: hH
set keyboardlayoutoverrides.KeyE: jJ
set keyboardlayoutoverrides.KeyI: kK
set keyboardlayoutoverrides.KeyO: lL
set keyboardlayoutoverrides.KeyH: iI
set keyboardlayoutoverrides.KeyJ: nN
set keyboardlayoutoverrides.KeyK: eE
set keyboardlayoutoverrides.KeyL: oO

keyboardlayout force is indeed set to true when i tab complete it
when i try to tab complete keyboardlayoutoverrides, i get this put in my command bar:
# keyboardlayoutoverrides {"KeyN:":"hH","KeyE:":"jJ","KeyI:":"kK","KeyO:":"lL","KeyH:":"iI","KeyJ:":"nN","KeyK:":"eE","KeyL:":"oO"}

regardless of all of this, none of these binds work and nothing has changed. i even tried copy-pasting each set keyboardlayoutoverrides... command one by one into the command bar and it didn't change anything. exiting and restarting firefox doesn't change anything

maybe this has something to do with the bug listed in the help section? shown here:
"NB: due to a Tridactyl bug, you cannot set this using array notation as you can for, e.g. [[homepage]]. You must instead set the lower and upper registers using a string with no spaces in it, for example :set keyboardlayoutoverrides Digit2: 2" for the British English layout."

for some reason, even when i try to set the overrides command-by-command the tab completion leads me to believe it's interpreted as an array instead, which then causes it to work. but i'm very unsure as the documentation for changing the keyboard layout is incredibly confusing and lacks many useful examples.

[treapster]

I looked into it and it's a nasty bug caused by line

tridactyl/src/lib/keyseq.ts

Line 498 in b4bb596

Object.keys(KEYCODETRANSLATEMAP).length === 0 && updateBaseLayout()

Thanks for reporting! It seems any updates stop propagating after the first override is added. What you could do is make sure keyboardlayoutoverrides is empty and put all override commands in .tridactylrc. From there it should be able to source it all at once.

[pupto-bismol]

yeah just tried that as well, no change. for reference i went to about:profiles and clicked "restart normally"
if this is a cache issue is there a cache file/directory i can delete?

[treapster]

There is a cache variable KEYCODETRANSLATEMAP(on the line linked on my first reply)which seems to be populated on the first keypress only, so it requires overrides to be set at that point. But as I said below it's weird because I am able to get the first override working(after I press a lot of keys), so something else is going on here

[pupto-bismol]

for me, even if i try to set just one override it doesn't change anything at all. that's after restarting firefox as well.
for example i did:
sanitize tridactyllocal tridactylsync
(restart firefox)
set keyboardlayoutoverrides.keyE: jJ
set keyboardlayoutforce true

as well as:
sanitize tridactyllocal tridactylsync
set keyboardlayoutoverrides.keyE: jJ
(restart firefox)
set keyboardlayoutforce true

and neither of these change the behaviour of e or E.

[treapster]

Not-working-at-all behavior at least makes sense given the code. The only thing left to try is reset config and then restart and source. But if you already tried it, I guess you'll have to wait a bit for a fix:(
Also, you said you're using ~/.config/tridactyl/tridactylrc. Are you passing it as an argument to source?

[pupto-bismol]

no, but it gets passed automatically anyways, other settings get changed just fine. i also have just tried it with a file at ~/.tridactylrc as well and the exact same thing happened

[treapster]

But the bug itself is even more mysterious, because with current code it should stop working as soon as the first key is pressed and KEYCODETRANSLATEMAP is populated, but for me it even makes the first override work somehow.

[bovine3dom]

We just need to add a config change listener here

tridactyl/src/lib/keyseq.ts

Line 521 in b4bb596

// ideally this would get called via a config.addChangeListener but they are not fired for mysterious reasons

[treapster]

Sure, but I tried to figure out why it doesn't work when working on the layout patches and couldn't determine the issue. And are you also having this weird only-first-override issue if you just use :set without reloading or anything?

[treapster]

Now that i've got some more time i can't even reproduce only-first-override bug. I got basically everything wrong with this issue, so nevermind:)

[bovine3dom]

There should not be any colons, is that written somewhere in the help or is it just a typo?

set keyboardlayoutforce true
set keyboardlayoutoverrides.KeyN hH
set keyboardlayoutoverrides.KeyE jJ
set keyboardlayoutoverrides.KeyI kK
set keyboardlayoutoverrides.KeyO lL
set keyboardlayoutoverrides.KeyH iI
set keyboardlayoutoverrides.KeyJ nN
set keyboardlayoutoverrides.KeyK eE
set keyboardlayoutoverrides.KeyL oO

[pupto-bismol]

oh wow thanks this worked
yeah i had just copied those definitions from a different rc file because the :help documentation doesn't really list any examples that work