Correct. On my OS, there’s no way to add apps to the screen recording section of the Security pane. It looks like I can only activate or deactivate apps that have registered to be on that pane.
That may be true for Catalina, although I believe even then you can add it in.
For Catalina, you can try using the Screen Capture action to trigger the security inclusion. Unfortunately, Catalina does not include the API for requesting permission explicitly (actually the header files say it does, but they don't exist so the app crashes if they are called, which is super awesome).
Thanks Peter for sticking with this. That worked as you predicted … although I’ve now got “terminal” added to the list of screen capture apps, but not KM.
I’m assuming that KM can do screen recordings but, as a newbie I don’t see how. I assume we want to get permission for this so I can use this feature going forward.
Not sure if this has been covered, but today I realised there's a simple trick to still benefit from super short snippets without compromising the longer variants (i.e. having both ";am" and ";amp" work without ";am" making ";amp" inaccessible as a "sub snippet" of sorts).
That may be trivial for some, but somehow I haven't come up with it until now. The trick would be to add space to the shorter snippet triggers, so that it would work as ";am ", while still allowing you to access ";amp" etc.
The downside though is that you might think the macro is broken if you forget which ones contain spaces.
Good points. I don't use that feature of KM, but I remember another thread which suggested surrounding the shortcut with a pair of characters, like this:
=em=
(notice that the "=" character does NOT require using the shift key. So it's easy to type, like your semi-colon.)
I use snippets a lot, not enough to need textexpander though, I find Keyboard Maestro copes well as long as one is careful. One thing I do is create a snippet then place the cursor back inside it so I can fill in some components, then have after a time delay, a cursor move to start the rest of the sentence; again for snippets one uses a lot this works well though feels a bit clumsy at first. It is like what you suggest in reverse as it were. Thanks too for the suggestion about avoiding the Shift key, that can really slow something down, in fact I have snippets designed specifically to avoid Shift.
For snippets that require a parameter, you can include the parameter in the trigger if you use a regex trigger and presuming the parameter has a known-ish format. For example, a macro with a date might look like: