AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
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AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
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Re: AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
#2Autohotkey is awesome and special, and everybody on Windows should learn it. There is no such thing on any other OS.
v2 syntax and features are so much better. It was basically in development for a decade and AHK itself more then 20 years.
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#3AHK allows me to program my own eclectic mashup of emacs and vim and put it in every single app on my windows machine including VS, VS Code, Chrome, Word, outlook, everything! My brain is broken without it, it is a godsend.
For the curious, like emacs, my "command mode" is whether or not I'm holding the alt key. Like vim, my command mode navigation is based on the relative positions of different keys. I know that vim uses jkl; for the arrows. I think it is easier to use "ijkl" in much the same way you would use "wasd". But based on position, home, end, page up, page down are included as well as delete. My hands never leave the home row. Technically "alt+j" will map to "ctrl+left" so that it moves my cursor an entire word and not a single character.
quick and dirty annotated map. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VWXMoh2pN7WrwC5Y2p0BNoYGOzt...
Re: AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
#4It is great. I honestly used to use it to automate pieces of work in a software that had terrible bulk tools, but now that I’m more on the management side I heavily use it to substitute words/acronyms. I have it expand all my acronyms for docs. If I put metrics on it I’m assuming it’s most heavy lift for me is fixing MS autocorrect for VLAN and IT.
Unfortunately (or fortunately) I ended up getting into other scripting tools/languages to figure out how to work around certain programming environments.
Re: AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
#5AHK allows me to program my own eclectic mashup of emacs and vim and put it in every single app on my windows machine including VS, VS Code, Chrome, Word, outlook, everything! My brain is broken without it, it is a godsend. For the curious, like emacs, my "command mode" is whether or not I'm holding the alt key. Like vim, my command mode navigation is based on the relative positions of different keys. I know that vim…
> I know that vim uses jkl; for the arrows.
No, it uses hjkl. But of course the spirit of Vim and Emacs is that you can customise these things.
Incidentally, I have quite a similar ‘Vim everywhere’ map, though I use CapsLock rather than Alt to change modes.
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#6If anyone has combined the power of AHK with a physical device like a StreamDeck it would be great to see examples.
In general too is there a gallery of great AHK use cases that we can emulate or get inspiration from?
Re: AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
#7Autohotkey is awesome and special, and everybody on Windows should learn it. There is no such thing on any other OS. v2 syntax and features are so much better. It was basically in development for a decade and AHK itself more then 20 years.
> There is no such thing on any other OS.
I thought the Mac comparable was Keyboard Maestro. Are the two that different (asks someone who hasn't used Windows since the '90s)?
Re: AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
#8If anyone has combined the power of AHK with a physical device like a StreamDeck it would be great to see examples. In general too is there a gallery of great AHK use cases that we can emulate or get inspiration from?
I recently got a streamdeck and followed this thread to get some AHK scripts mapped to SD buttons.
https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=53318
Also found several resources on github. Will dig up the links when I get a chance.
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#9The scripting language for version 1 was pretty terrible but having messed with version 2 for a while now I'd say it's pretty decent.
Re: AutoHotkey v2 Official Release Announcement
#10Autohotkey is awesome and special, and everybody on Windows should learn it. There is no such thing on any other OS. v2 syntax and features are so much better. It was basically in development for a decade and AHK itself more then 20 years.
> There is no such thing on any other OS. I thought the Mac comparable was Keyboard Maestro. Are the two that different (asks someone who hasn't used Windows since the '90s)? https://www.keyboardmaestro.com
Maestro is more like a Macro Recorder while AutoHotkey is a programming language for automation.
Also AHK community is huge.