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Allow Hyper Key

#1

I really liked to have an additional modifier key, because this would allow me a much greater freedom to define custom key bindings. It would open the door to endless opportunities in this regard.

Unfortunately, Sublime Text 3 apparently does not support hyper.

According to this (deprecated) doc: http://sublimetext.info/docs/en/reference/key_bindings.html

And my own test which remained futile:

{
        { "keys": ["hyper+a"], "command": "upper_case", "args": { "forward": false } }
}

So, please dear St. Clause give me that HyperKey support, now! :slight_smile:

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#2

what is a hyper key? something only on certain keyboards?

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#3

Are you talking about the key super?

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#4

No, it is a fourth modifier, besides alt, ctrl and super.
I am not aware of any keyboard which offers hyper as a physical key.
On Linux it is undefined by default, but can be mapped to other keys.
I believe it must be similar on other operating systems.

See this thread for further
https://askubuntu.com/questions/19558/what-are-the-meta-super-and-hyper-keys

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#5

I was under the impression that it went Ctrl, Meta, Super for codes. At least in the Emacs world, and I don’t know that Emacs permitted binding to Super. It gets most of its bindings out of key sequences after Ctrl or Meta opening chords.

Alt is the IBM 104-key adaptation to Meta. Looks like most have defined what’s come to be the Windows key as Super.

On the Mac keyboard, I thought Command (symbol) was Meta and Option was Super but it’s been several years since I played with Mac hardware and MacOSX.

Anyway, even if X.org supports Hyper it may not have any analog in the Windows or Mac world.

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#6

I do not know whether Hyper is available on MacOS, as I have zero experience with that OS.

Still, on Windows the hyper key should be accesible by emulation:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40435980/how-to-emulate-hyper-key-in-windows-10-using-autohotkey

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