Is it possible to lock a key? I'd like to lock shift for text selection

[crantok]

I started using Kanata yesterday and it immediately made my keyboard more ergonomic. I've defined a navigation and editing layer that I switch to by pressing right Alt. (config below)

I'd like to be able to lock shift on by tapping the shift key when I'm in the nav layer. That way, I will select text between the point at which I actived the lock and wherever the caret is now. I would like to terminate the lock after C-x (which is in my nav layer) or by tapping shift again. This feature would also let me scroll in a terminal with just the up down pgup pgdn keys.

Is this possible?

;; my config

(defsrc
                       8
         q   e   t y   i
         a s d f g h j k l ;
         z x c v       ,
  ralt
)

(deflayer default
                       8
         q   e   t y   i
         a s d f g h j k l ;
         z x c v       ,
  (layer-switch nav)
)

(deflayer nav
                                         C-pgup
   A-lft      up       A-rght   C-y       pgup
   C-lft lft down rght C-rght C-home home pgdn end C-end
    C-z  C-x C-c  C-v                    C-pgdn
  (layer-switch default)
)

[jtroo]

Fake keys should enable what you're asking for:

https://github.com/jtroo/kanata/blob/main/docs/config.adoc#fake-keys

[crantok]

Thank you! That looks great.