AutoHotKey to AutoKey

[reblok]

I'm one of those recent movers to Linux (Ubuntu) form whom a
replacement for AutoHotKey was a necessity. It looks like AutoKey is
it.

I understand that at one time there was a script that converted AHK
abbreviations to AK abbreviations but it was dropped when a change
took place. That's would be a great solution for movers but even with
that...

My biggest qualm with AK as opposed to AHK is the need for dialogs to
enter abbreviations. Not that they are there - obviously it makes
entry of simple abbreviations easier in the sense that hitting a radio
button for case sensitivity is easier for many people than writing the
code for it.

But it's also much slower. I'm sure people can enter (AHK code)
:c:cmrrr::Certified Mail - Return Receipt Requested
:c :Cmrrr::CERTIFIED MAIL - RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
much, much faster in a text editor than making those same two case-
sensitive entries using AK's dialogs.

I have well over a hundred entries in my AHK abbreviation script. It
may be over 200 at this point.

Is there any thought (or maybe there already is the ability) to enter
abbreviations directly or create a script that can either contain
multiple abbreviations or will allow for mass entry?

[Christiaan Dekter]

The API to create abbreviations and set the options on them is extremely simple. Most of the work to make this happen would be around correctly parsing the input file from AHK.

I guess the main reason this hasn't happened yet is because we only get occasional requests and usually the users making the request have manually entered their data long before any prototype or hack could be prepared... The alternative of implementing it as a proper feature is of course quite a lot of work...

[reblok]

Where is the file that contains the abbreviations? I'd like to give a
try at manually converting my AHK abbreviation script and paste it in.
I'll let others know the results for whatever benefit there may be.

On Jun 6, 4:05 am, Christiaan Dekter <cdek...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The API to create abbreviations and set the options on them is extremely
> simple. Most of the work to make this happen would be around correctly
> parsing the input file from AHK.
>
> I guess the main reason this hasn't happened yet is because we only get
> occasional requests and usually the users making the request have manually
> entered their data long before any prototype or hack could be prepared...
> The alternative of implementing it as a proper feature is of course quite a
> lot of work...
>

[Christiaan Dekter]

~/.config/autokey/autokey.json

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