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> I found a way to live without them all. I'm not willing to sacrifice my productivity for some ideological purity. It would take weeks to create a fraction o
by csdvrx 4y ago
> I found a way to live without them all.
I'm not willing to sacrifice my productivity for some ideological purity.
It would take weeks to create a fraction of what AHK already does for me with scripts I have improved every year.
I tried to explain in another thread some of the remappings I have: like how Caps often ends us remapped to Esc (when alone) or Control (in conjunction with another key: act as a modifier) on MacOS, my 2 shifts and 2 alt do their normal modifier function (when used in conjunction with another key) but when used by themselves act as PageUp/PageDown Home/End
Going up 2 pages up in the browser? The left shift pressed twice (Shift Shift) gives me 2 PageUp. Top of the page? Alt gives me Home. Bottom? The other Alt gives me End. Select from the point of edition to the beginning? Shift+Alt does Shift + Home. It's not the homerow, but it's 2 keys easy to reach, and never missing (unlike the actual PageUp which is often Fn + something - no I don't want to turn that into 3 or 4 keys).
Yes, doing Cap s=> Esc or Control is possible on Linux, but the rest will be complicated.
And it's just one of the many things AHK does for me! Here's another example: a partial screenshot into a base64 encoded PNG is just 2 keys away.
It might be possible to do all that on Linux, but last time I tried to get something a fraction as good as mintty (with ligatures, italic, sixels...) the best I could get was a pimped xterm.
For what I do, the tooling is just much better on Windows - and yes, you may not believe it, but even for tty/console things.
- Semaphor 4y ago> Going up 2 pages up in the browser? The left shift pressed twice (Shift Shift) gives me 2 PageUp. Is this on a device with a tiny keyboard, or is it really something you do so often you want it on the main area instead of pressing PageUp twice?
- gertlex 4y agoThis AHK hotkey sounds like a thing I'd do (and I use AHK as well): /Sure/ I can scroll with mouse or page-up, but that needs my right hand. And I eat at my computer while reading sometimes... So I put a scrollball on the left side of my keyboard. (though spacebar and shift+spacebar generally work too) https://hackaday.io/project/203-keyboard-with-apple-mouse-scroll-ball https://hackaday.io/project/203-keyboard-with-apple-mouse-sc...