This is an AHK implementation of the full selection of special characters, symbols, and dead keys accented characters that are available on the standard US Apple keyboard using Option or Option+Shift. Uses the AHK Unicode method, which works even with applications like Notepad that fail with the Alt Code character entry method.
The Option key scheme will interfere with Alt and Alt+Shift shortcuts while active, so it is disabled by default when the AHK script is loaded. It can be enabled and disabled again with Shift+Option+Command+O (the letter "o"), or by using the new tray menu item. The tray menu item will receive a check mark when the scheme is active.
Alert messages are presented to the user on enable and disable. The enable MsgBox warns about the conflict and reminds the user how to disable the scheme.
Known issues:
Typing Option+L will work, but will also lock the screen since the keys are Win+L. This can only be disabled in the registry, which will completely disable the ability to lock the screen. There's no known better solution.
The Apple logo (Shift+Option+K) exists only in the Baskerville Old Face font, and the related shortcut will display a MsgBox explaining how to make it display properly.
All other characters work without known issues.
Documentation of all the included characters (137 different characters, if my math is right) that can be typed when this scheme is enabled is here:
https://github.com/RedBearAK/optspecialchars/blob/main/Option-key-characters.md
This PR replaces and enhances the Umlaut function submitted by user Kirschem in PR #647.
Removes any ambiguity because Key.*META is NOT Alt, it's (according to our own mapping!) Super.
Long-term `M` should probably go away (to further remove ambiguity or be replaced with META.
Context: https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail/issues/158
Changes implemented here:
- Tab navigation shortcut (Cmd+Shift+Braces) that has worked in multiple macOS applications with tabbed interfaces.
- Tab navigation shortcut (Cmd+Shift+Arrows) that also works in Apple's Terminal.app.
- Wordwise delete word/line shortcuts, to override a conflict with GUI app wordwise shortcuts.
- Move tab nav for Deepin Terminal into a more general override block that also supports GNOME Console and other apps that use Ctrl+Shift+Tab/Ctrl+Tab instead of Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn.
