{"id":3767,"date":"2014-04-26T09:39:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T13:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=3767"},"modified":"2014-04-26T09:39:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T13:39:57","slug":"autohotkey-for-repetitive-tasks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/26\/autohotkey-for-repetitive-tasks\/","title":{"rendered":"AutoHotKey for repetitive tasks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ahk.png\" alt=\"ahk\" width=\"541\" height=\"99\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ahk.png 541w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ahk-300x54.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This the favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/submit-a-tip\/\">tip<\/a> Labrigger has received this week. Here it is, unedited, and in its entirety:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I often use autohotkey for repetitive file naming and key remapping when I am forced to use clunky software on a windows computer I don&#8217;t plan on living on for long. It makes working with these programs much more tolerable. You can also use it for dll calls etc., Highly recommended, highly useable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autohotkey.com\">AutoHotKey<\/a> is surprisingly versatile program. Besides key re-mapping and hot-key functionality, it has a powerful scripting system that can even generate forms through its GUI commands. It&#8217;s open source and very easy to get started with. Check out their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autohotkey.com\/docs\/Tutorial.htm\">tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For OSX, <a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/20\/some-osx-programs-tips\/\">Typinator<\/a> is a nice text expansion program. However, it is nowhere near as versatile and powerful as AutoHotKey. Apple&#8217;s own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.automator.us\/leopard\/index.html\">Automator<\/a> offers scripting capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<p>This the favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/submit-a-tip\/\">tip<\/a> Labrigger has received this week. Here it is, unedited, and in its entirety:<\/p>\n<p>I often use autohotkey for repetitive file naming and key remapping when I am forced to use clunky&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/26\/autohotkey-for-repetitive-tasks\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[30,33,27],"class_list":["post-3767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","category-tips","tag-computing","tag-openness","tag-osx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3771,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions\/3771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}