Spotlight Quick Keys as an alternative to KM Typed String Triggers?

[Frankb]

@ronald

If the typed string trigger is followed by a delete, the outcome can potentially be disastrous.

If you want to avoid problems caused by deleting characters, something like this might help.

"Typed String Triggers" – Please Help Make This "System" Better

I like "Typed String Triggers“. Eg to go to the KM forum I prefer to type "fkm" rather than use a shortcut. But this trigger type should only be used in text fields, because KM passes the typed characters to the front app and then deletes them, which can have unwanted side effects. A safe environment for strings would be a prompt. But unfortunately this doesn't work, as _jims recently pointed out. "This string is typed trigger does not fire within the GUI generated by Prompt With List. I've se…

@ronald

An alternative which @peternlewis could perhaps consider is creating another type of typed string trigger which only triggers within a search box like box.

Am I mistaken, or do you also use BTT? If so, BTT recognizes the field where the cursor is located. This means that triggers can be set up to only work if the condition “cursor in field x” is met.