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I've been using Auto Hotkey[1] for a while and it's truly amazing to bring the missing hotkeys feature to Windows.

This, plus Altdrag[2], Quicklook[3] and Winxcorners[4] are my must have.

1: https://www.autohotkey.com/

2: https://stefansundin.github.io/altdrag/

3: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/quicklook/9nv4bs3l1h4s

4: https://github.com/vhanla/winxcorners

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I played with Auto Hotkey (AHK) recently as I wanted to add a layer to my keyboard. Wow, what powerful software! But I really disliked the scripting language and wished they'd used a standard language.

I ended up installing TouchCursor [1] which did everything I need at present, but will persevere with AHK.

1: http://martin-stone.github.io/touchcursor/

I totally agree with the pain of their scripting language.

Here is mine, it's very basic but does the few things I wanted (i.e run a program with a combination of keys): https://gist.github.com/tbronchain/c52b610a76eac8c26faae9ad2...

Look at AutoIt. It's a more traditional basic language, and iirc AHK was a fork of a very early version a few decades ago.

Yeah, AHK is amazing and worth learning, but its scripting language is astonishingly awful.

AltDrag has been one of the first pieces of software I install on a Windows machine for years now. Such a time saver.

As we're a little OT here, I might as well recommend you check out GridMove which moves windows to predefined positions on any of the screens with a press of a hotkey.

alt drag is something I picked up on Linux. I was delighted to find it for Windows several years ago, and the name made it really easy to find.

Mac window management continues to infuriate me.

I can not recommend Contexts [1] and Rectangle [2] enough!

[1]: https://contexts.co/ [2]: https://rectangleapp.com/

Auto Hotkey is surprisingly powerful

Here's Tom Scott talking about how he used AHK and Lua to make a keyboard for every emoji

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIFE7h3m40U

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