Gaming USB Keyboard not working properly with Atom

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Hi @maxbrunsfeld,

I saw on @nathansobo's post from issue #146 on Sep 19, 2016, to contact you with any questions about keyboards not working.

I’m using a Redragon Harpe K503 RGB Gaming USB Keyboard on my MacBook Pro with OS 10.10.5 (Yosemite). It has 112 keys. The keys on my laptop stopped working after some was spilled on it. I use an external keyboard. It works fine with all the other programs on my Mac. With Atom it does some weird things, primarily I can’t type in the editor. I can highlight folders and files on the tree view. But anytime I try to edit my code nothing happens. The only key that gets a response is "a". When I press a the "Enter the path for the new file" dialogue box pops up. So I'm guessing keystroke a causes Atom to think I'm trying to create a new file. I'm currently using Sublime to code but I prefer Atom.

I read your blog post “The Wonderful World of Keyboards”. It didn’t help. Can you help me? How can I fix this?

I noticed it with Atom 1.25. I updated to Atom 1.29 and my keyboard still doesn’t work.