Now, type this: !-:: Send ~ Return !':: SendRaw ``` Return You can edit it with your code editor or with the default Windows Notepad. Let’s start by creating a startup.ahk file on your desktop.
If you want to use different key combinations, please refer to the AutoHotKey docs What I want to acheive is the following shortcuts: The main step is to write the script to bind our desired key combinations to print both ~and ' characters. Once the wixard ends the installation, there’s no need to run the program. Let’s see how ca we settle our tilde and backtick comfortable shortcuts thanks to AutoHotKey! InstallationĪs stated above, we can install it from.
Well, this little program will save your life! You can download it free from its official website, and by doing so, you will be able to write and run some code, to remap all of your keyboard shortcuts. The solutionĪutoHotkey is a free, open-source scripting language for Windows that allows users to easily create small to complex scripts.
The important point is that the numbers for these shortcuts must be typed on the number pad and, alas, not all computers (especially the small laptops) have the number pad on their keyboard, making it impossible to use them, forcing users to find the desirred characters somewhere on the internet or in other parts of code and copy/paste them, a very annoying procedure. The native backtick shortcut on Windows is Alt + 96, whereas the native shortcut for the tilde is Alt + 126. If you are lucky enough to have the numberpad on your pc, then you could use the default shortcuts provided by windows… if you can remember them! In any case, typing these characters on Windows is quite uncomfortable. Or maybe, you were trying to set up a CSS sibling selector. Maybe you use the new ES6 syntax and needed the backtick to interpolate your variables inside a string. If you are a developer and work with Windows, it is very likely that at somepoint in time, you faced with an annoying little issue: typing a backtick and/or a tide in your code.
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