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Keymap Editor Icon Keymap Editor

A browser app to edit ZMK keymaps. Although one of the goals for this project is to simplify the manual effort of keymap editing for the end user, is isn't a substitute for understanding ZMK. Be sure to read ZMK's documentation in order to fully leverage this app's functionality.

Try it now! Go to the Keymap Editor and try it out with the built-in keymap-editor-demo-crkbd before setting up your own repo.

Talk to me! 🗣

I'd love to know how the Keymap Editor is working out for you! Has it helped you with managing your own keymaps, are you struggling with functionality, have you created your own keyboard and directed users here?

I want to know about all of that. I'm not taking any donations, the only thing driving this work forward is knowing what is or isn't helping people.

Shows a screenshot of the Keymap Editor application featuring a graphical layout of the Corne Keyboard with a keymap loaded from the nickcoutsos/keymap-editor-demo-crkbd GitHub repository.

Note

Source code updates are no longer shared here

I have been developing this application on and off since August 2020, but more recent source changes have not been published and this isn't likely to change any time soon. For more information see Wiki: Source Code Updates

If you do want to use the available source code as-is, you may wish to review the original README.

Features

  • WYSIWYG keymap editing
  • Multiple keymap sources:
  • GitHub repositories
  • Clipboard
  • File system*
  • Dark mode!
  • Conditional Layers
  • Combo editing
  • Macro editing (including support for creating/using parameterized macros)
  • Behavior editing (creation and re-configuration)
  • Auto-generated layouts for ZMK's supported keyboards**
  • Rotary encoders
  • Multiple keymaps

*File system web APIs are currently only supported in Chromium-based browsers

**Auto-generated layouts are meant as a starting-off point and are provided for most keyboards available in the ZMK repo and may need customization -- I own exactly one keyboard, I don't know all the layouts.

Read more: Wiki:Features

Usage

Local

This project runs as a web application, but there are still options for working with offline ZMK keymaps:

In the editor you can choose the Clipboard keymap source and paste in the contents of your ZMK .keymap file, and if you're using a Chromium-based web browser you can alternatively use the FileSystem source to read and make changes to select .keymap files directly.

Actual firmware builds are outside of the scope of this project, so if you're working on local keymap data it is assumed that you have a local ZMK development environment or some other means of running builds.

Web Integrations

This editor includes a GitHub integration. You can load the web app and grant it access to your public or private zmk-config repos. Changes to your keymap are committed right back to the repository so you only ever need to leave the app to download and flash firmware.

License

The code in this repo is available under the MIT license.

The collection of ZMK keycodes is taken from the ZMK documentation under the MIT license as well.