Can Anyone Help Me Find a Simple Macro Program?

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I am so sick of copy and pasting stuff like this when posting:

img src "http ://server.com/photo.jpg"
a href="http ://whatever.com" >description<

I want to be able to make my own shortcuts; for example, cntrl-I would be remapped to post image HTML and cntrl-L or something for posting links.

so, I looked for a freeware Windows macro utility. There are hundreds. Can anyone recommend a decent macro tool? Must be free, must not have a trial period, and obvs no spyware.

Does anyone know of a good tool? Or can I simply create macros in Firefox? Or Windows? I looked, but couldn't find any option to do so. Thanks.

jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Saturday, 8 April 2006 13:32 (twenty years ago)

here's one: http://www.autohotkey.com/

haven't tried it myself but it is gpl so... bloke who used to sit next to me would swear by them but i can't remember which one he used. when i started work i had a wyse 50 terminal that you could define macros for and map them to the function keys. unfortuately there was a limit of 10 characters per macro so sometimes you'd end up having to press F1 F2 F3 to get the job done.

koogs (koogs), Saturday, 8 April 2006 15:08 (twenty years ago)

On the Mac, the best is TypeIt4Me

The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 8 April 2006 16:32 (twenty years ago)

thx koogs, i just installed it and wrote the scripts i wanted:

^1::
Send a href="http ://whatever.com" >description

^2::
Send img src="http ://server.com/photo.jpg" /

pretty easy, only took a minute. looks like solid freeware. so how does everyone else paste in links or images? i had always copy and pasted from a .txt file links i had on my toolbar folder. could do it very quickly, but it becomes annoying..

jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Saturday, 8 April 2006 19:32 (twenty years ago)


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