Modifiers are broken when an action is assigned to a letter

[sekonova]

Greetings

Hey there! Cool project; thanks for the effort.
I've been reading the docs and discussions for 2 days.
Still, couldn't sort out some blocking issues with trial & error.
I would really appreciate it if someone guide me in the right direction.

Ultimate Goal

• Single tap "c" > Outputs "c"
• Double tap "c" > Outputs "ç"
• Single tap+hold > Outputs "C"
• Double tap+hold > Outputs "Ç"

I need this for every character. If there's a shortcut, please tell me :)

Major Blockers

• Number 1
  • All modifier functionality is lost.
  • Ctrl-C, Shift-C, Alt-C, Win-C not working.
  • I am not sure if this is normal when using letters.
  • Do I need to implement everything from scratch?
  • Can it somehow fallback to default functions?
• Number 2
  • For the ultimate goal, I need to combine tap-dance and tap-hold.
  • I don't know how to combine actions. Is it possible at all?

Current Config

• Please check (defalias cx) definition.
• It's half-baked, because of the reasons above.

(defvar tap-timeout 100 hold-timeout 200 tt $tap-timeout ht $hold-timeout)

(defalias lo (tap-dance $ht ((layer-switch qwerty) (layer-switch canary))))
(defalias cx (tap-dance $ht (c (unicode ç))))
(defalias cl (tap-hold $tt $ht bspc lctl))

(defsrc
  grv  1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    0    -    =    bspc
  tab  q    w    e    r    t    y    u    i    o    p    [    ]    \
  caps a    s    d    f    g    h    j    k    l    ;    '    ret
  lsft z    x    c    v    b    n    m    ,    .    /    rsft
  lctl lmet lalt           spc            ralt comp rctl
)

(deflayer qwerty
  grv  1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    0    -    =    bspc 
  tab  q    w    e    r    t    y    u    i    o    p    [    ]    \ 
  @cl  a    s    d    f    g    h    j    k    l    ;    '    ret 
  lsft z    x    @cx  v    b    n    m    ,    .    /    _   
  lctl lmet lalt           spc            ralt @lo  lrld
)

(deflayer canary
  grv  1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    0    -    =    bspc 
  tab  w    l    y    p    k    z    x    o    u    ;    [    ]    \ 
  @cl  c    r    s    t    b    f    n    e    i    a    '    ret 
  lsft j    v    d    g    q    m    h    /    ,    .    rsft 
  lctl lmet lalt           spc            ralt @lo  rctl
)

[gerhard-h]

(tap-hold  1 100 
	(tap-dance 140 ( 
			a	;; tap -> a
			(tap-hold 10 100 
				(macro a a) ;; tap tap -> aa
				(macro b) ;; tap hold -> b
			)
			(tap-hold 10 100 
				(macro a a a) ;; tap tap tap -> aaa
				(macro e) ;; tap tap hold -> e
			)
	))
	
	(multi 
		(macro c) ;; hold -> c
		(tap-hold 200 800 XX (macro bspc d ));; Long_Hold -> d
	)
)

I use macro to avoid autorepeat unicode does that, too.
I also included Long_Hold because I prefer it over multi tapping.

not sure this is your problem, just remember (multi lsft (unicode ç)) is still ç not Ç and Ctl+ç is not Ctl+c you may need fork or switch to handle modifiers

[sekonova]

Hey @gerhard-h,
Thanks for your time.
So, we can nest actions like this.

I tried it but some letters are not printing.
Timing must be perfect and the letter "c" gets stuck.
Even though I tap-release "a" very fast, it prints "c" sometimes, instead of "a".
Also when I press Ctrl-A, it does Ctrl-C. I guess a race condition happens in the hook.

I will check fork and switch options. Maybe they'll do the trick :)

[gerhard-h]

If you get to many c increase the timeout of the first tap-hold from 100 to maybe 200.

I don't use tripple tap so (tap-dance 140 should also be increased to your preferences...