On: AutoHotKey V2 (Breaking Upgrade)

[slig]

As someone who has been using Macs since 2006 and recently moved to Windows, I cannot recommend AHK enough.

[ImaCake → slig]

I only have a single AHK script (I don't use windows much) and it specifically maps WinKey + Q to close a window and WinKey + H to hide a window. Windows is basically unusable for me without this convenience script!

[slig → ImaCake]

For me it was the CMD+` for cycling between windows of the same Application, can't live without it.

Do mean "hide a window" just the CMD+H in macOS? How did you do it?

[WirelessGigabit → slig]

Do you have an example on how to do CMD (CTRL) + ` on Windows?

[slig → WirelessGigabit]

Sure, I used this snippet https://gist.github.com/snmishra/794c5f41693510c46ba9bedc839...

[Fnoord → ImaCake]

Would you mind sharing this script?

[Aachen → slig]

It's one of the few things I miss from Windows as a Linux user. Some of it can be done using xdotool and other utilities, but nothing works the way AHK does.

[l8rlump → Aachen]

Have you tried AHK for Linux?

Discussion and link at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32654023

[Aachen → l8rlump]

Good to know! Posted four months ago, "first functional implementation", nope that wasn't around yet >10 years ago when I switched and missed AHK.

[AnIdiotOnTheNet → Aachen]

Which is kind of astounding for an OS that is supposedly about flexibility and customization. Something like AHK should be built in to every personal computer OS, but it isn't for some reason.

[Fnoord → Aachen]

You can run AHK on Linux with Wine.