Rime as a Configurable Input Method Platform
A draft article on using Rime and building generators around its configuration and skin systems.
Rime is interesting to me not only because it is a good input method, but because its configuration invites tooling.
Draft translated from an Org note. It is framed as a tool-building article rather than a feature checklist.
Rime is open source, highly customizable, and therefore slightly dangerous in the best way: once the configuration gets large, hand-editing everything starts to feel wasteful.
Why I started generating config
I built a generator so I would not have to wrestle with raw YAML for every change. Using Racket to produce the config made variation and reuse easier.
The same pattern appeared in skins
The skin system for another input method app used Jsonnet and already looked promising, but managing many skin variants still felt repetitive. That pushed me toward a small Racket DSL that can describe keyboard layout and styling at a higher level.
Where this is going
There is already a web-facing version at rime-config.mayphus.org. A future revision of this article should probably include a real skin preview and some examples of the generated output.