# * Activate the script on the command line or link it to a keyboard shortcut. # * Highlight the text using the middle mouse button. I use this script to quickly make links in Drupal for content that allows HTML formatting, of course you could us it for any repetitive task. Install in the normal way you use for your distro. Note: The following scripts require the presence of “xsel” and “zenity”. This is achieved using a mixture of Tcl, Tk, Zenity and Bash scripting along with various X utilities. Shortcut Keys can fill the paste buffer with often used text like email addresses and links and can move windows around and resize them by the pixel or to predetermined sizes (for The Gimp for example).

Just as in AHK, there are many ways to write functions that take highlighted text and make it into an HTML link, or IMG HTML so it can be pasted back into a X. AHK is very good but I was confused to hear that “sadly nothing is available like this in Linux” which is, as I thought, simply untrue. In a previous blog I showed how it’s possible to make a simple GUI that duplicates some of the behaviour of AutoHotKey, the scripting utility for Windows.

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