supersixirene 16 hours ago

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

  • robterrell 14 hours 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 10 hours ago

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

      • bestham 7 hours ago

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

        • eviks 7 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 10 hours ago

Wonder how this compares to Autohotkey on Windows.

  • eviks 10 hours ago

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

biomcgary 10 hours 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.

lukaslukas 17 hours ago

Nice. But why?

  • ivanche 17 hours ago

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

    • supersixirene 16 hours ago

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