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swsieber on July 14, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hammerspoon – Powerful automation of OS X with Lua

After jumping through some hoops, I now have caps lock usable as a shortcut button. Here's some things I do with it:

CAPS + 1 = Bring up Bash

CAPS + 2 = Bring up IntelliJ

CAPS + 3 = Bring up Chrome

CAPS + 4 = Bring up Geany

CAPS + 5 = Bring up SourceTree

CAPS + F1 = Chat software

CAPS + F2 = Email

CAPS + F = Full screen the current app (But not really fullscreen - it's like option + green button, except width too)

CAPS + W = Cycle the wifi

CAPS + V = Paste text from the clipboard by typing it in, accounting for tab indentations. This is useful for copying things from Outlook into Confluence. Stupid Confluence.

lilyball on July 14, 2016 [–]

I've always found that mapping Caps Lock to Ctrl is the most useful thing you can do with it.

egypturnash on July 14, 2016 | [–]

I like mapping it to cmd-shift-alt-ctrl. Lets you add a whole new set of hotkeys that are a pain to press otherwise.

swsieber on July 15, 2016 | | [–]

That's what I did.

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