So I discovered the extend feature which i think is amazing and I'm realizing how powerful it truly is. One question I had about the bag of tricks is how to activate colemak-dh and the tarmak layouts. I cant find it in the EKPL app already (i just see the colemak and qwerty layout.) Im not sure if theres something in the code that i need to enable but some guidance would be greatly appreciated. I already am loving it and am blown away by the potential. Look forward to hearing about it.

I'm not sure what you mean about the left thumb stretching more when using Extend? Is that because you reach for the Caps key with the left pinky? I haven't noticed any such problems in the years I've been using Extend (more and more!), but I play the piano so my hands may be different. Could you please explain the problem in more detail? It's an interesting question!  ( のvの) c[_]

I know that SteveP uses a thumb key for the Extend modifier. I haven't done that so I couldn't really advise you on the issue. One thing about that is that EPKL has trouble remapping some of the modifiers efficiently, including both Alt keys. So you might run into trouble with that.

To select layouts you could edit an EPKL_Layouts_Override.ini file yourself. However, if you get the latest commit (not the Release 1-1-6 but the commit, without an EPKL.exe file in it but you can compile that with the enclosed .bat script), there's a Layout/Settings... menu option where you can freely pick your layout(s) and have them written to lines in the Override file. Then you could look at the file if you wish to see how it's done.  (Θώθ )

To respond to dreymar, i think the left thumb stretching is because im stretching my left pinky out to reach capslock more often than i ever would and so my left thumb stretches along with it. It's pretty weird and dunno how common of an issue it is. But its also just making things harder to type normally. The typing issue could also be because i need to get used to using extend for backspace instead of having my right hand fly to the top right of the keyboard, so theres probably some muscle memory stuff there thats needs to be worked out over time. And using left alt for extend sounds really interesting actually. it could be something to look into and test out as well maybe.
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As for getting the layouts to be setup correctly I'll have to look into the files and commits and seeing if they work out shortly. I'll let you know if they're more struggles with things like tarmak and colemak-dh on there. Just to give some extra info, i downloaded the zip file from a different spot in the links you'd given instead of downloading the commits from the code window in github if that helps at all.

Wait so would i use registry remap or sharpkeys. Or would these be using them both together. I apologize for the questions and such, i very little experience with these sorts of things as is probably evident as is.

And i also was able to find the layout/settings options once i updated to the latest commit. thank you for that and the other message. I think is should be good with figuring that out now.

Ans another thing to bring up, which i had briefly mentioned earlier, but does extend have a pretty big learning curve? I find my typing is definitely worse since I've been using it. Mainly the usage of capital letters is tougher since I'll hit capslock instead of shift for them a lot, and also another issue is that using backspace is significantly harder when it comes to my muscle memory. Quickly deleting something, and then retyping is a lot harder and it ends up making me make more mistakes as i have to reposition my hands. I'm just curious if others found that switching took a bit even with doing basic typing let alone using it for more complicated shortcuts and being more efficient in other scenarios.