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Here's the use case.
I use aText, a text expander. It has a hotkey to show a list of saved text expansions. I want to remove the need for manually pressing this hotkey. Therefore I need my OS to look at my keyboard and trigger this hotkey automatically when a specific sequence is found.
Ex.
My hotkey to show the text expander list of expansions is
CMD
+SHIFT
+S
All of my expansion shortcuts starts with
;;
When I write or press
;;
, I want my OS to sendCMD
+SHIFT
+S
to the system, and thus triggering the expander list.
Is this possible somehow?
do you need that window open to be able to use the triggers, or is it just as a reminder of which key-sequence to use? – Tetsujin – 2015-02-03T16:50:30.390
It's pretty much a reminder only. – Jonathan Winger-Lang – 2015-02-04T02:06:24.703
ah, OK - then my idea wouldn't work. I was going to suggest moving them over to system prefs > keyboard > text instead. – Tetsujin – 2015-02-04T08:23:37.863
1I see, I need the extended capabilities a dedicated text expander though. I got one solution working, I posted it as an answer to the question if you want to have a look. – Jonathan Winger-Lang – 2015-02-04T12:58:09.093