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I second Hammerspoon. It fits perfectly between being barebones enough to not get in your way and having enough features to do just about anything you want.

Here's my configuration file.

https://github.com/Linell/hammerspoon-config

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Hammerspoon looks quite good (and thank you for writing up usage instructions - I like the "mash" concept :), but part of me wonders whether or not this deserves a port to node. The reason why would be to leverage something like D3 to do window layout (I want either a treemap or a force-directed graph).

It would likely be less effort to port those parts to Lua instead of the whole system to node. Does D3 even run headless anyway?

I guess you could have it display a WebKit window.

It wouldn't be a window manager then though...

Guys - thanks for informing us about Hammerspoon and sharing your configs - I've learned a lot in the last 5 minutes and solved some problems that have plagued me on OSX for years. Kudos to you and the Hammerspoon team, its a terrific tool!

The naming of mash if awesome, mash! I'd like to recommend to set a hyper key using karabiner, such as I have done with tab: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=1EbhTEjd

This way if you press tab on it's own it still behaves as the tab key, but combined with another key it acts as Hyper, or mash.

I also love the "Shift to Shift (+ When you type Shift only, send the appropriate parenthesis)" option, and have my caps-lock mapped to control, with karabinier doing: Control_L to Control_L (+ When you type Control_L only, send Escape)

That's pretty cool! In my config above, I ended up just using caps lock. It's a bit of a pain to remap, you have to use both Seil and Karabiner, but once you get it, it's very convenient.

The entire cmd+shift+alt+ctrl keymap space is open, except with the (surprising) inclusion of cmd+shift+alt+ctrl+., which does a sysdiagnose. So I added a warning about that.

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