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Dev tools · May 8, 2024

Wk – a which-key like popup menu for your key chords (X11/Wayland)

wk provides users with a portable and flexible interface for managing their key chord mappings. Key chords can be built directly into the binary, read from "wks" script files, or even piped in from stdin with the same wks syntax. There is also a wks-mode package for Emacs (https://github.com/3L0C/wks-mode). I appreciate any feedback you might have about the project and hope you find it useful.

Wk – a which-key like popup menu for your key chords (X11/Wayland) launched on May 8, 2024 with 8 votes, #1,470 of 4,539 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

What it does

wk is a popup menu for your custom keyboard shortcuts. Inspired by emacs-which-key, dmenu, and bemenu. - 3L0C/wk

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