How to Find the Macro You Assigned to a Hotkey Trigger (Long Ago)

Questions & Suggestions
1

How to find the macro that you have assigned to a keyboard shortcut, perhaps it is better to say:

How to find the macro that belongs to a keyboard shortcut?

Of course I can sort on the column with the keyboard shortcuts, but I find it difficult to find e.g. Ctrl+Alt+Comma. (My eyes/the commas look like apostrophes etc.)

So I came up with this: I created an empty macro and assigned the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Comma to it.

Then I pressed Ctrl+Alt+Comma and got the Conflict palette. There I found the macro that I was looking for.

I guess that it is not possible to see in the Keyboard Maestro interface directly what macro belongs to a keyboard shortcut, by pressing it?

2

You could use KM’s macro debugger and set it so macros start paused and then trigger your shortcut; the debugger will then show which macro was just triggered (and started paused). See the KM wiki manual:Macro Debugger [Keyboard Maestro Wiki]

I haven’t tried this myself (as I’m nowhere near my Mac) but it should work.

3

Hi ALYB
How about sorting your Macro by shortcut, see here.

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You can then search alphabetically for your shortcut.

4

Use the search box, top-right of the Editor window. Select the "All Macros" Smart Group then enter:

hotkey:⌃⌥,

That will also include ⌘⌃⌥, triggers, but you can refine the search by using:

hotkey:⌃⌥, -hotkey:⌘

...and you can add more terms to filter by hotkey and name. It uses the same search strings as Smart Groups, and you can see those here.

5

Hey Guys,

Remember – it's no longer necessary to mess around and sort macros by date to get to the last used macro.

Peter made this dead simple a few versions back:

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-Chris

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