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This is a bit of an esoteric request so I will try to phrase it clearly.

I am currently beginning to learn colemak and doing so through a series of transitional layouts that go by the group name of tarmak. On top of that, I use evil-mode so the spacial relationship between different keybindings is important. Since these tarmak layouts are only temporary, It would be nice to not have to rebind everything repeatedly as I get gradually closer and closer to full colemak.

Is there a emacs package or snippet of code that can remap keys depending on the current keyboard layout of the computer such that the spacial position of keybindings does not change?

Y.Khurshid
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  • You can have a look at package ergoemacs, that provides bindings to the same physical keys for various layouts. It does need you to tell which layout is currently in use. – JeanPierre May 07 '16 at 20:04
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    Related: [Detect keyboard layout?](http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/18579/detect-keyboard-layout) – Dan May 07 '16 at 23:44
  • http://ergoemacs.org/misc/ergoemacs_vi_mode.html is another modal keymap that has layouts for azerty, azerty-be, colemak, colemak-mod-dh, dvorak, programer-dvorak, qwerty, qwerty-abnt, qwertz and might be a good example of what you're looking for? ;; "workman" – shoshin Jan 03 '20 at 16:48

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This is not exactly a complete answer to your question, but it may help you as a starting point. My evil-colemak-basics provides Qwerty/Colemak best-of-both-worlds key bindings:

https://github.com/wbolster/evil-colemak-basics

You can use it as a starting point in case you have a different layout.

That said, this is 6 months after you asked your question, so maybe you are using proper Colemak now, in which case this package may be exactly what you are looking for.

wouter bolsterlee
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