Section (§) to Backtick with Karabiner-Elements on Finnish keyboards

karabiner.json

{
  "profiles": [
    {
      "complex_modifications": {
        "rules": [
          {
            "manipulators": [
              {
                "description": "Section to Backtick (MS keyboard)",
                "from": {
                  "key_code": "grave_accent_and_tilde"
                },
                "to": [
                  {
                    "key_code": "equal_sign",
                    "modifiers": ["left_shift"]
                  },
                  {
                    "key_code": "spacebar"
                  }
                ],
                "type": "basic"
              },
              {
                "description": "Section to Backtick (laptop)",
                "from": {
                  "key_code": "non_us_backslash"
                },
                "to": [
                  {
                    "key_code": "equal_sign",
                    "modifiers": ["left_shift"]
                  },
                  {
                    "key_code": "right_arrow"
                  }
                ],
                "type": "basic"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

Add to ~/.config/karabiner/karabiner.json

Thanks for this!

I'm not sure if there's something funny on my machine/keyboard, but for me it works better if I replace:
"key_code": "right_arrow"
with
"key_code": "spacebar"

That way there's no magic cursor shift and it works more like a normal key press.

I actually changed it locally to spacebar also. I'll update the gist!

Alternative: Just make the normal backtick button output the backtick used by programmers

          {
            "description": "backtick fix",
            "manipulators": [
              {
                "from": {
                  "key_code": "equal_sign"
                },
                "to": [
                  {
                    "key_code": "equal_sign",
                    "modifiers": ["left_shift"]
                  },
                  {
                    "key_code": "spacebar"
                  }
                ],
                "type": "basic"
              }
            ]
          }