QMK Keymap for the Iris CE

Layout summary

Most functionality is spread across three layers:

1. Base: Pretty basic QWERTY layer with the GUI, Bspc, Enter, Spc and Alt keys moved to the thumb cluster.
2. Navigation: Focuses on moving around.
   • Utilizes One Shot Modifiers on the left home row so we can easily do stuff like Ctrl + Right
   • Utilizes macros for quickly selecting/extending words and lines
   • Shortcuts for browser tab manipulation
3. Symbols: My symbol layer, inspired by sunaku's symbol layer and getruer's symbol layer
   • Symbols on the left hand home row are placed in a way that favors Vim usage
   • Parentheses and brackets are grouped on the right hand

We have also implemented a function layer as a Tri Layer, which is used for less common keys, such as media and RGB controls, accessing the keyboard's bootloader, F-keys etc.

How to use

This repository is a valid QMK external userspace as documented here. To use it, you need:

1. QMK setup locally. See QMK Docs for details.

   qmk setup
   

2. Clone this repository locally.

    git clone https://github.com/chzerv/qmk_keymap
   

3. Add the cloned repository as an overlay (replace path/to/qmk_keymap with the path of the cloned repo).

   
   qmk config user.overlay_dir="$(realpath path/to/qmk_keymap)"
   

4. (optional) set a default keyboard and keymap.

   qmk config user.keyboard=keebio/iris_ce/rev1
   qmk config user.keymap=chzerv
   

5. Build and flash.

   qmk compile -kb keebio/iris_ce/rev1 -km chzerv
   qmk flash -kb keebio/iris_ce/rev1 -km chzerv
   
   # Or, if you followed step #4
   qmk compile
   qmk flash
   

TODO

• My symbol layer needs a bit more tweaking
• Make my Control/Escape mod-tap send a one-shot Ctrl when held
  • Turns out this causes more trouble than it solves:
    • Ctrl + Mouse doesn't work
    • Ctrl only applies to the first key, which makes shortcuts like deleting backwards in the shell using Ctrl+h feel very awkward, as you have to keep pressing Ctrl
• Add X-Case

Credits

• Pascal Getreuer's QMK keymap
• Sunaku's "Glorious Engrammer" keymap