If continues his amazing dedication, Keysharp will most likely be superior to AHK_X11 in most aspects. Note on Keysharp: I think the differences to Keysharp should be pretty obvious by now, both in philosophy and technology, in v2 syntax and target operating systems, target audience and ambitions. There's a small section on Contributing in the Readme also. It's GPL-licensed, so I want to encourage others to join in or fork it for their purposes. Please understand that despite its minimalist approach, this was, is and will be a lot of work, so unless someone wants to pay me full time to work on it, it will be an incomplete patchwork for an extended time.

It is/will be shipped as a single executable native binary with very low resource overhead and fast execution time.Īll the points above enable a super quick, feature-packed iteration time and as little of effort as possible for finally getting some form of AHK on Linux.

Everything that can't be easily translated into Linux (surprisingly little) will simply be skipped.

With the eventual goal of 80% feature parity with that old spec, but most likely never full compatibility.

It shares no code with normal AHK or any other program.

for Unix-like systems with an X window system (X11).

Some folks have already tried to stop me from taking that route, but to no avail, I'm afraid :D Please forgive me.

In other words, at least initially, AHK_X11 supports *only legacy syntax*.

Some of the more modern features would certainly be helpful though, such as RegEx (definitely gonna add this one) or ImageSearch. Mixing these syntaxes is also not a great idea, as we have all learned.

Maybe this will also be added some day, but it does not have high priority for me personally. Many modern AHK features will be missing, especially expressions (`:=` or `% v`) and functions, so you probably can't just port your scripts from Windows. You can check the old manual by installing or extracting the old `.chm` manual from. A rudimentary but functional implementation of AutoHotkey v1.0.24.

You can open up issues over there for bugs, feature requests etc., but I'll also check this very thread and maybe Discord. The GitHub Readme has quite thorough information on it, but I'll quote some parts of it here anyway.

I want to share with you this current project of mine.

For mac instal AutoHotkey 2.0.3