This is a pretty neat hack! Not sure that my feet could actually respond as quickly and accurately as my fingers but it'd be fun to try
Vim clutch
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Re: Vim clutch
#32Pish-posh. What if you wanted to go into insert mode with an 'a' or an 'o' rather than an 'i'? It needs more pedals.
He has plans for this already: https://github.com/alevchuk/vim-clutch#extras
Not enough. "I don't use always use vim, but when I do" I enter insert mode in all kinds of ways that are mostly never just i. Usually c and a movement. I'd rather just have one switch that did esc when I hit it.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because you don't have to hit escape or jj to exit out. You just let your foot off the pedal. No chance of accidentally being in edit mode or not.
I doubt that foot / finger coordination is good enough to get the timing right without losing some keystrokes.
I mean, initially, sure. But if any of us spent a day with this I doubt it would be anything less than second nature. Brains are incredibly elastic.
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#34I've been planning to stick an MSP430 inside an old guitar pedal unit for window switching duties. The pedal I have has four switches, I was thinking one for the editor, one for the terminal, one for the browser and one perhaps for firebug or something. However, maybe these car style pedals would be more ergonomically suited than the little metal studs of guitar pedals, which are designed to be aggressively stamped o…
This is just about the raddest thing I have ever heard.
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#35Interesting, but you might get better mileage out of a teensy arduino ( http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/ ) a tin, and some proper foot switches.
Or a MakeyMakey (http://www.makeymakey.com/) and go barefoot.
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#36Why isn't there a clutch for computer games (except car driving games)?
A clutch can be used for mod switching; such as running mode, stealth mode or reloading guns.
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#37This is brilliant!
I only use i part of the time, however; I, a, A, o, and O are each used substantially.
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#38I expect we will start seeing lots of interaction pedals like people are mentioning when the MakeyMakey's[1] from Kickstarter start shipping.
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#39Wow, I literally had this idea just yesterday.
Another idea: repurposing a midi faderbank that supports automation (servos) to display data from snmp/statsd/graphite.
I was inspired because my midi keyboard has a pedal switch input...
Re: Vim clutch
#40Very cool. I'd be a little afraid to get addicted and not be able to edit effectively away from my pedal though.