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You know, that's part of what's been holding me back from using it for much besides remapping CapsLock to Control. Maybe it's time to sit down and write a Lisp DSL that compiles to it.

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Or make it call a cloud service running a real program in a kubernetes cluster, which gets the hotkey and returns a script to interpret. If AutoHotKey does not have network and eval functions, they must be added ASAP

:-)

Remapping Capslock to Control:

Windows: https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys

Ubuntu Linux (don't know about other Linuxes): /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/pc

    key <CAPS> { [ Caps_Lock  ] };

    key <CAPS> { [ Control_L  ] };

These solutions avoid needing to keep a keybinding application open. The Linux solution unfortunately resets after every version upgrade.

It's always time to sit down and write a lisp DSL. That compiles itself to AutoHotKey scripts so you can compile while you key.

(I am in the process of doing this inside OpenSCAD.)

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