Wait and cursor keys

[peterfreeth]

I had inputremapper working perfectly, since updating to Ubuntu 25-04 it was removed and now all of my lovely macros are lost and I can't get something really simple working again.

For a particular keyboard I want to assign 6 to the left cursor arrow (and 8 to the right) and have a short wait just before and/or after pressing it.

According to what I can tell from the examples, that's KEY_LEFT.wait(200)

Any time I put a period into the macro box, it shows a syntax error, like ""6": The output_symbol "KEY_LEFT." is not a macro and not a valid keycode-name" or ""6": The provided code was not a macro"

Also, as soon as I start typing KEY_LEFT up pops a list of allowed commands, and that's not one of them. LEFTCTRL, LEFTALT etc but not just KEY_LEFT. It does work, by itself, even though it's not listed. If I change the output target from keyboard to keyboard + mouse then KEY_LEFT pops up, but this is not a mouse function, it's a keyboard function.

So... although KEY_LEFT isn't in the allowed list of commands it still works

I found that simply Right and Left are in the command list, but still this doesn't seem to work:

wait(20).Right.wait(20)

No syntax error but also nothing happens when I press the key, xev shows no output whereas if I just have 'Right' then it works.

What am I doing wrong with WAIT?