ShannonMax: A Library to Optimize Emacs Keybindings with Information Theory

[Jeff_Brown]

Something I love about emacs is the ability to tab complete the name of a command. I do know a lot of keyboard shortcuts, but I use way, way more commands than I know the shortcut for. Need to rename a buffer? M-x ren-buf TAB should do it. Etc.

[setopt]

Me to, but to be fair, I think this is no longer unique to Emacs. See for example the "command palette" in VSCode; it isn’t "tab completion" per se but similar to e.g. M-x with Vertico.

[snikeris]

This is cool.

While we're discussing optimizing emacs keybindings...I've found it key to have my bindings set up such that my thumbs operate the control modifier key.

[kleiba]

I'm fine with the standard CAPS_LOCK is CTRL setup...

[lorenzohess]

This looks great. Would there be an easy way to generalize this program to tiling window managers? Maybe initially I can use this by modifying the WM to forward all its keybindings to a dummy Emacs instance. For WMs is the entropy theory also applicable?

[oritron]

Some people use Emacs /as a tiling window manager/ :) https://github.com/emacs-exwm/exwm

[sammy0910]

it should be -- as long as you have like the right logging set up, I think the theory would also be applicable.

currently the calculations in this library are done with a clojure jar, so if you're interested, you might have an easier time calling that directly

[tra3]

Are there any similar tools for the OS as a whole?

I'm trying to switch to Corne keyboards and the key maps are critical.

[chills]

What do you mean, "the OS as a whole"? This is the OS!

[Pay08]

This is theoretically pretty extensible, but you need an OS-wide keylogger. On the Linux side, I'm not sure if Wayland allows for that at all.

[aghilmort]

this is great / will try!