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AutoHotkey Automation Tool

Discussions revolve around AutoHotkey (AHK), a Windows scripting tool for automating keyboard/mouse inputs, UI tasks, and repetitive work, with users sharing experiences, comparisons to alternatives like Sikuli or Keyboard Maestro, and recommendations.

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fragmede • Jul 4, 2024 • View on HN

there's AutoHotKey on windows, among a ton of other automation tools.

driad • Dec 29, 2019 • View on HN

Autohotkey for automating all the rubbish and manually intensive software I'm forced to use at work.

kruhft • Jul 15, 2016 • View on HN

Autohotkey[1] has some of the functionality at least:[1] https://www.google.com/?q=autohotkey

flarg • Dec 21, 2022 • View on HN

Autohotkey beats them all (IMHO)! Hundreds of hours saved per year.

dezmou • Jul 7, 2019 • View on HN

can you tell me more about your use of autohotkey ?

bornfreddy • Feb 11, 2023 • View on HN

Thanks, TIL: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoHotkey

l8rlump • Jan 6, 2023 • View on HN

Have you tried AHK for Linux?Discussion and link at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32654023

fsckin • May 16, 2012 • View on HN

For the windows folk, autohotkey does the trick quite well.

niel1 • Sep 6, 2023 • View on HN

Any real world accounts as how it compares to Autohotkey?

smusamashah • Aug 19, 2024 • View on HN

I am not sure but having used AutoHotKey recently for a few qol things, it feels like AHK would be able to do this too.