The name is teetering on the edge of hilarity for British users.
Triggering at both a security and a sexual deviancy level.
Show HN: Keydogger – Minimal keyboard macro for Linux (Wayland)
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#32There is Expanso for xorg https://espanso.org/
This is one of the first things I install on new linux machines - such a great tool.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the GIF is supposed to give the breakdown. As I understand, type "@mymacro" and it can expand it to whatever you define. Wouldn't hurt to have a description in text though...
I do realise it now that it's missing it's usage. It's a simple keyboard macro which supports all printable characters for triggers and everything for expansions. It sends native key presses if all the expansion are printable characters. If not, it uses clipboard and sends `Ctrl+V`
I'm used to user-facing macros (as opposed to say a Lisp macro) being scripts triggered by a keyboard shortcut, so the terminology was confusing to me. Calling this "text expansion" or "text substitution" would have made immediate sense.
Re: Show HN: Keydogger – Minimal keyboard macro for Linux (Wayland)
#34There is Expanso for xorg https://espanso.org/
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#35So it's text expansion. Maybe you should just call it that? Also I 100% thought it was a keylogger with some relation to a sex act in the UK, which is why I clicked in the first place. Maybe not a great name for something as innocuous and not entirely erotic like text expansion.
Re: Show HN: Keydogger – Minimal keyboard macro for Linux (Wayland)
#36Look into Espanso as well. Works great, and is cross-platform.
Re: Show HN: Keydogger – Minimal keyboard macro for Linux (Wayland)
#37There is Expanso for xorg https://espanso.org/
And for Wayland, and macOS, and windows!
Edit: also, "Espanso"
Re: Show HN: Keydogger – Minimal keyboard macro for Linux (Wayland)
#38Looks like a cross between an IME and autocomplete. Although in my case, I think I would prefer a proper IME, or maybe something like dmenu with fuzzy search, to invoke on an "as needed" basis.
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That ship has already sailed I'm afraid. Instead of running against windmills, try submitting patches and constructively improving the thing - it isn't going to go away, that much is safe to say. Every day yet another distro adopts it, at a steadily increasing pace. Build extension packs, workarounds, etc. - similar to all the tools unfucking gnome 3 did, instead of fighting a hopeless battle.
Please don't FUD.
Re: Show HN: Keydogger – Minimal keyboard macro for Linux (Wayland)
#40Looks like a cross between an IME and autocomplete. Although in my case, I think I would prefer a proper IME, or maybe something like dmenu with fuzzy search, to invoke on an "as needed" basis.
Dmenu like fuzzy search does make sense when you have alot of expansions. I'll add it as I find the need for it myself.