It would be amazing to have a way to use literal characters, ignoring any modifiers

[TZProgrammer]

If you try to invert "-" and "" for example, you will find it impossible. It would be nice to be able to fork between the literal "-" and the literal "" with the lsft press. Right now that is not possible due to the lsft being applied to "-", making it a "-". I think if you have multi with release-key, it also does not work, I think then the fork might not happen? I am not sure, but I have not gotten it to work.

Describe the solution you'd like
Something like a keyword to make any character literal. For example "L-a" could stand for "literal a"

[jtroo]

This feature may be what you're looking for:

https://github.com/jtroo/kanata/blob/main/docs/config.adoc#global-overrides

Let me know if that helps!

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Technical aside: a feature that outputs "literal characters" would be the unicode action. This is unfortunately not well-supported across all applications. Other than using this unicode action, I don't think it is possible to properly support a "literal character" output because there are multiple levels in the OS that can change what character a keyboard event can be, and kanata is only in control of one of them.

Some related tickets for attempting to implement a literal character:

• Behaviour in the presence of OS-level remapping is inconsistent in Windows-LLHOOK #152
• Feature request: The unicode keyword assumes an us keyboard #274

[TZProgrammer]

This is exactly what I was suggesting, thank you! Also, great work, Kanata is an amazing tool.