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Basic key press/consumer press behavior docs.

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title: Key Presses
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TODO: Docs on key press behavior
## Summary
The most basic of behaiors, is the ability to send certain keycode presses and releases in response to activating
a certain key.
For reference on keycode values, see the [USB HID Usage Tables](https://www.usb.org/document-library/hid-usage-tables-12).
## Keycode Defines
To make it easier to encode the HID keycode numeric values, most keymaps include
the [`dt-bindings/zmk/keys.h`](https://github.com/zmkfirmware/zmk/blob/main/app/include/dt-bindings/zmk/keys.h) header
provided by ZMK near the top:
```
#include <dt-bindings/zmk/keys.h>
```
Doing so makes a set of defines such as `A`, `NUM_1`, etc. available for use with these behaviors
:::note
There is an [open issue](https://github.com/zmkfirmware/zmk/issues/21) to provide a more comprehensive, and
complete set of defines for the full keypad and consumer usage pages in the future for ZMK.
:::
## Keypad Key Press
The "keypad key press" behavior sends standard keypad keycodes on press/release.
### Behavior Binding
- Reference: `&kp`
- Parameter: The keycode usage ID from the keypad usage page, e.g. `4` or `A`
Example:
```
&kp A
```
## Consumer Key Press
The "consumer key press" behavior allows you to send "consumer" usage page keycodes on press/release.
These are mostly used for media and power related keycodes, such as sending "Pause", "Scan Track Next",
"Scan Track Previous", etc.
There are a subset of the full consumer usage IDs found in the `keys.h` include, prefixed with `M_`, e.g. `M_PREV`.
### Behavior Binding
- Reference: `&cp`
- Parameter: The keycode usage ID from the consumer usage page, e.g. `M_PREV` or `M_EJCT`
Example:
```
&cp M_PREV
```

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