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# GokuRakuJoudo



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[Examples](./examples.org) —

[Tutorial](./tutorial.md) —

[Telegram](https://t.me/joinchat/UDlL5H7VIwAVK0_7) —

[Goku in the wild](./in-the-wild.md)



1.  [Intro](#intro)

    1.  [Why use Goku?](#why)

    2.  [Install](#install)

    3.  [Usage](#usage)

    4.  [Tutorial](#tutorial)

    5.  [Note](#note)

    6.  [Changelog](#changelog)

    7.  [Dependencies](#dependencies)

    8.  [Contributing](#contributing)






# Intro



Goku is a tool that lets you manage your

[Karabiner](https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements) configuration with

ease. 



Karabiner Elements uses JSON as its config file format. This leads to thousands of lines

of JSON (sometimes over 20,000 lines), which makes it really hard to edit the

config file and iterate on your keymap.



But fear not! Goku brings the [edn format](https://github.com/edn-format/edn) to the rescue.






## Why use Goku?



Below are two Karabiner configuration snippets that map caps lock to an escape

key.  







karabiner.json










karabiner.edn






In practice this means that you can see multiple Karabiner rules on you screen

as you edit your config with Goku. Which speeds up the iteration speed

significantly as you can create new rules as little as few characters.  






## Install



    brew install yqrashawn/goku/goku






## Usage



Make sure you have a profile named "Default" in Karabiner's GUI tool. You can

specify your own profile name [using `:profiles`

keyword](https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo/blob/master/examples.org#profiles-wip). 



![img](./resources/images/karabiner-profile.jpg)



Goku reads the `karabiner.edn` file which holds your Karabiner config. This file

should be placed inside `~/.config/` directory on your Mac (you can start with

[example.edn](./resources/configurations/edn/example.edn "example.edn")).

Starting from version 0.2.2, you can specify your config file path using the

environment variable `GOKU_EDN_CONFIG_FILE`.   



Goku provides two commands:



`goku`: Will update karabiner.json once.

`gokuw`: Will keep watching your `karabiner.edn` and when it changes, it will update your

`karabiner.json` configuration. 



Run command `brew services start goku` to use it as a service (runs `gokuw` in

background). When Goku is running as service, the logs are kept inside

`~/Library/Logs/goku.log`.  



Use `goku -h` to learn more.






## Tutorial



Read through the [Tutorial about how you can write the configuration in

Goku](./tutorial.md). 



If there's any question or advice, just [open an issue](../../issues/new) or

join [Karabiner Telegram group](https://t.me/joinchat/UDlL5H7VIwAVK0_7) and ask your

questions there. 






## Note



-  ~~Using `#_` to comment out rules [like

   this](https://github.com/yqrashawn/yqdotfiles/blob/2699f833f9431ca197d50f6905c825712f7aee8d/.config/karabiner.edn#L41)

   will leave a null rule (see below) in karabiner.json, it won't cause any

   error.~~ 



```json

    {

      "description" : null,

      "manipulators" : [ ]

    }

```






## Changelog



Check [CHANGELOG](./CHANGELOG.org) file.






## Dependencies



[watchexec](https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec) for watching the edn config

file.   

[joker](https://github.com/candid82/joker) for linting the edn config file.   






## Contributing



Use `lein repl` for developing.



Change [Makefile.local.example](./Makefile.local.example)'s name to

`Makefile.local`, change `GRAALVM` variable in the makefile to right path, run

`make local` to test then generate `goku` binary file.