The code I wrote to use semicolon like this sometimes breaks if I try to type too many actual semicolons in a row but I usually rely on JS Beautify to add those for me. That's done with Hammerspoon too! I've got an extra layer of hotkeys available to me to set up whatever else I can think of in the future. What gives Hammerspoon its power is a set of extensions that expose specific pieces of system functionality, to the user. Leanpub: Spoon to track and notify about Leanpub builds.
KSheet: Keybindings cheatsheet for current application. Provides no hotkeys and maintains no state. Keychain: Get and Add items from Keychain. By holding it down and pressing another key, I can switch between specific programs without cycling. HSKeybindings: Display Keybindings registered with bindHotkeys() and Spoons. Use shift when pasting something to simulate typing in the text instead, getting around websites that block pasting. I've got another hotkey set up to unset it (semicolon+e).Ĥ) You may have noticed I'm using keyboard shortcuts with semicolon as a modifier key. Ive started1 to do similar things on macOS using Hammerspoon2. There are a few things that need to happen before I start a screen recording (opening CamHead.app, setting my screen resolution, and showing the dock at a certain height so I can later crop the video to 16:9) and I have it all bound to a single hotkey (semicolon+r). With hand in place, pressing down the s and d, you can press a to add the option. I am working on a rewrite that I hope can mitigate this, but since it's a fundamental re-write of hs.hotkey and hs.eventtap, it's proceeding slowly.
The trick is to check which is the frontmost (active) application while doing so. Doing so has it's own issues, most notably that when Hammerspoon gets bogged down for any reason, keyboard input across all applications pauses until Hammerspoon goes idle again. People use it for all sorts of automations, with key remappings and quick window switchers being the most common applications. Detect when CMD+N is pressed and create key events to simulate CMD+F. Hammerspoon is a macOS automation framework that allows you to hook into all sort of OS interfaces using Lua scripts. Im new to Hammerspoon, but interested in automating some macOS workflows with it. Lua scripting Are there not apps available for. What gives Hammerspoon its power is a set of extensions that expose specific pieces of system functionality, to the user. If you haven’t already, be sure to read the first installment of this series to learn about the basic Lua concepts. In this second article of the Just Enough Lua series, we dive into Lua’s types and data structures.
At its core, Hammerspoon is just a bridge between the operating system and a Lua scripting engine. Just Enough Lua to Be Productive in Hammerspoon, Part 2. Additionally, tab can be rigged up to act as a. What is Hammerspoon you ask This is a tool for powerful automation of OS X. Detect when CMD+F is pressed and return true to block it. With this Karabiner recipe enabled, you press a hyper key and then h/j/k/l to move the cursor left/down/up/right. At its core, Hammerspoon is just a bridge between the operating system and a Lua scripting engine. You may recognize these commonly used vi cursor movement keys. Setup an event tap for the key down event. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of OS X. h for left, j for down, k for up, l for right. Now my work music is a single keyboard shortcut (semicolon+m) and a few miliseconds away.ģ) Set up screen recording. Heres how it works: while s and d are pressed and held with the left hand, you use the right hand to press h to move the cursor left. I got tired of the friction around opening Spotify, going into my work playlist, hitting play, waiting several moments for the playlist to load, etc, so I downloaded a bunch of mp3s from YouTube and put them in ~/Music/work/. I've got ctrl+space set to Vimcal, alt+space set to midnight.app (a time tracker I'm building), and ctrl+alt+space set to Things.Ģ) Start/stop playing my work playlist of lofi hiphop. You can examine keyboard and mouse events by using EventViewer. Although it comes as part of Karabiner-Elements you can use it independently to monitor keystrokes and mouse button presses. Here are the top ways I'm using it right now:ġ) Hide/show apps similar to how iTerm lets you bind a hotkey to hide/show a terminal. Karabiner-EventViewer is another option that can log the information you are looking for. It's one of the first must-have-for-a-usable-laptop tools I set up when I get a new MacBook.
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