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Hey! Creator of Shortcat here. Glad to hear that Shortcat helps mitigate the cursor lag. I wouldn’t have thought Shortcat would be used on an EInk display!

Issue appears to be specific to EU.

Glad to see I'm not the only one that wanted this workflow!

I added this the first cut of this feature to iTerm2 about a decade ago because I often work in the terminal, but sometimes need to reference files elsewhere in my workflow. The feature was named "Semantic History" although in hindsight, it's not a very good name.

To use, hold Cmd and click+drag the path to where you want to drop it. Behind the scenes, the current working directory is stored with the position of the buffer, so it works on relative paths even when you change your working directory. On Cmd+Drag, it searches the buffer around the cursor until it finds a valid path to work with.

Will do

I'm thinking about doing something similar to highlight where Shortcat's about to click cause I do agree that it could be better in that aspect. The amount of elements Shortcat will be able to pick up will be far greater than an OCR-based solution though

Homerow's creator used to be a Shortcat user! He went with a more-vim like interaction model which optimises for minimal keystrokes whereas Shortcat's design goal is to minimise cognitive overhead

Thanks! I don't have a way to take tips yet, but you can support by pushing for developers to improve their accessibility implementations when you run into issues!

I see you found the setting for that. It was a deliberate default initially as the intended way to use Shortcat is to activate Shortcat and type what you want without waiting to see hints, as this is generally faster and less mental overhead IMO, especially for fast typists and well-structured interfaces.

However, some people prefer minimal keystrokes and I get that. I'm trying to figure out the right set of defaults to make it friendly to new users while nudging people to how Shortcat is designed to be used and will be tweaking it as I go.

I'm not sure if an app like Shortcat can be released on the App Store given it uses the Accessibility APIs (sandboxing etc), also the 15-30% cut they take is a bit ooooof, but I do have plans to support company/teams licensing!

No worries! Glad you love Shortcat :D

It won't be open source, but I will be adding an API so it can be integrated with other apps and scripted

Thanks :D

I'm working on a version that allows sending arrow keys with modifiers to the targeted application, so soon!

Working on that right now :)

Oooooh, Hunt and Peck indicates that it's possible to make a Shortcat for Windows!

I would probably need to pay someone to build that particular version though cause the last time I built anything for Windows was like 15+ years ago