Show HN: AutoHotkey for Linux

Re:Show HN: AutoHotkey for Linux by endymi0n on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @03:25AM (#32659356)

Nice! I used to love AHK to death, incidentally it also got me my first paid programming job.

It‘s about the only software I dearly missed after switching to Mac, but recently I found Hammerspoon and couldn‘t have been happier.

Yep, Lua is a bit weird and exotic, but hey, so is AHK. In the end, you trade in some of AHKs terseness for better modularity and compatibility with existing packages.

https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon

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Re:Show HN: AutoHotkey for Linux by erikcw on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:02AM (#32662950)

I’ve been using hammerspoon for several years and it has really become integral to my workflow.

You may want to check out the extension package spacehammer[0]. It includes a bunch of workflows and shortcuts that I’ve found extremely useful.

Interestingly (for me at least), it’s authored in Fennel [1], a lisp that compiles to lua. I actually found spacehammer originally when I was working on converting my personal hammerspoon config to Fennel.

[0] https://github.com/agzam/spacehammer

[1] https://fennel-lang.org/

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Re:Show HN: AutoHotkey for Linux by Ldorigo on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @04:50AM (#32659888)

You might also want to check KeyboardMaestro on Mac. It's honestly the only programme I miss after switching to Linux desktop. 40€ but worth every cent.

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Re:Show HN: AutoHotkey for Linux by smirgel on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @03:36AM (#32659426)

Love hammerspoon! It would be nice if it supported Linux as well.

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Re:Show HN: AutoHotkey for Linux by spidersouris on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @06:16AM (#32660342)

> incidentally it also got me my first paid programming job

How?

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