supersixirene a day ago

This is legend. I’ll be putting this to extensive use tomorrow.

  • robterrell a day ago

    You've always had this ability, but with more convoluted syntax:

      osascript -e "tell application \"System Events\" to keystroke \"whatever\""
    Specify the application too with multiple -e parameters. This will copy whatever is selected in Safari:

      osascript -e "tell application \"Safari\" to activate" -e "tell application \"System Events\" to keystroke \"c\" using {command down}"
    • eviks a day ago

      How do you stimulate delays, animation intervals, key down/ups a with System Events?

      • robterrell 2 hours ago

        AppleScript supports the "delay" command. System Events supports both "keydown" and "keyup" in addition to keystroke.

      • bestham 19 hours ago

        Apple Script is a programming language and you have full control flow at your disposal to wait and branch as needed.

        • eviks 19 hours ago

          This is too generic to answer this specific question. Key down, for example, is not an inherent property of a programming language.

          (and neither is delay precision guarantees, which might be important for some key sequences)

pkoird a day ago

Wonder how this compares to Autohotkey on Windows.

  • eviks a day ago

    Ahk isn't cli, and also is a full-blown programming language, so not as limited in its input

lukaslukas a day ago

Nice. But why?

  • ivanche a day ago

    For example to automate what couldn't be automated otherwise.

    • supersixirene a day ago

      For example to deal with software designers that think web browsers are people

biomcgary a day ago

Now to finetune my local LLM on the sendkeys syntax, add kyutai for streaming voice recognition, and my mac will be fully voice operable.