Getting used to a new company, a new team, a new product, a new set of technologies… all from an OS I wasn’t fluent in was just too much.
Upon joining the company, I tried to do all of my work from the Surface Laptop 3 that I was given, and… well, that was quite painful. Part of the reason behind me joining Microsoft last October was to familiarize myself with Windows, as was purchasing a Surface Go 2 last summer. While I continue to prefer macOS as a desktop environment, I’m slightly concerned about the direction Apple is taking with the platform and I don’t like the thought of being locked in.
Up until last summer, I had been a macOS-only desktop user for about 15 years with the occasional peek at Windows 10 on an old PC. If so, this post will equip you with an AutoHotkey configuration file that brings macOS keyboard shortcuts to Windows. You can do it by choosing the option “Record keyboard/mouse” from the Tools menu, but whenever we tried that, the application crashed.Are you a macOS user occasionally dealing with Windows systems or trying to switch platforms? Are you a Windows user that believes that the Windows-native keyboard shortcuts are objectively bad? Are you annoyed by something as simple as copy/pasting text not working consistently across apps? Practically, though, its latest version failed us in that regard. Theoretically, Autokey allows you to create some relatively advanced automation solutions without creating Python scripts from scratch. You can use other special keys in your scripts, always in brackets: alt, enter, escape, tab, shift, and super for the Windows key. With this approach, you can create sequences of keypresses to automate any application that can be controlled with the keyboard. Then, we can follow by entering the file’s name in the next line.
For example, we want to have our text editor save the file we are working with using the name “MTE.txt.” By typing Ctrl + s in the main window, we tell Autokey to send the combination CTRL + S to the application. The simple way to automate stuff is by replicating the keypresses that achieve the result you wish in your favorite application.
You can choose an entry from there to have its contents pasted in the program you are using. If you press the hotkey afterward, a pop-up menu with the folder’s contents will appear. You can also map hotkeys to folders that contain multiple snippets. Instead of using abbreviations, you can also assign keyboard shortcuts to text snippets – just choose to set a Hotkey instead of an Abbreviation.
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