{"id":9278,"date":"2006-10-26T21:32:33","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T21:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9278"},"modified":"2006-10-26T21:32:33","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T21:32:33","slug":"new-life-for-a-unloved-keyboard-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9278","title":{"rendered":"New Life for a Unloved Keyboard Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Jim Biancolo&#8217;s blog, he&#8217;s posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biancolo.com\/content_show.cfm?content_id=26596\" target=\"new\">little script<\/a> he made for use with AutoHotKey (the free macro\/automation app) that repurposes the Insert key (found on most PC keyboards). Here&#8217;s what he says: <\/p>\n<p> Y&#8217;know how sometimes you go to hit the Home key and you accidentally catch the Insert key too, but you don&#8217;t realize it until you&#8217;ve typed over something, because suddenly you are in &#8220;overstrike&#8221; mode rather than &#8220;insert&#8221; mode? I wanted to kill the Insert key, and immediately thought of my favorite utility, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autohotkey.com\/\" target=\"new\">AutoHotKey<\/a> (upon which I built that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biancolo.com\/content_show.cfm\/content_id.25569\/universal_autocorrect_with_autohotkey_and_wikipedi\" target=\"new\">Wikipedia AutoCorrect<\/a> thing). But instead of just killing the Insert key, I thought perhaps I could make it do something useful. So I took the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autohotkey.com\/forum\/topic15.html\" target=\"new\">&#8220;append&#8221; script<\/a> from here and just changed it to fire whenever I hit Insert.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> So you end up with an amendable clipboard. Now *that&#8217;s* useful. <\/p>\n<p> [Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehacker.com\" target=\"new\">Lifehacker<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Jim Biancolo&#8217;s blog, he&#8217;s posted a little script he made for use with AutoHotKey (the free macro\/automation app) that repurposes the Insert key (found on most PC keyboards). Here&#8217;s what he says: Y&#8217;know how sometimes you go to hit the Home key and you accidentally catch the Insert key too, but you don&#8217;t realize &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9278\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Life for a Unloved Keyboard Key&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}