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[engunneer]

the latest version needs AHK_L. get it from l.autohotkey.net

[lilleyt]

I've created a simple script that uses a different technique to accomplish using Space as the modifier key. Because it's so much easier to see what the script is doing by using this technique, I'm posting it here as a proof-of-concept. I haven't tested it very thoroughly but it seems to work well for me. There are two caveats, which are:

1.) It delays typing spaces until the space bar is released, and it disables autorepeat on the space bar
2.) Because space is delayed but other keypresses aren't, you can occasionally get inversions when typing fast, where the character following the space comes out first

The big improvement is that all of the key mappings can be easily seen and altered, if need be. The other methods, while much more polished, are rather cryptic to read.

I've posted it as a gist so it can be improved and updated. It requires autohotkey_l.

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Ted

[kdoske]

This program was something that really got me interested in AHK. Its funny to come back to it and still see it in all its glory. I never became the fast pirate typer of my dreams but its still nice to look back at the post

[caltrop]

I love this script!  I supplemented with a 17 button mouse for the things that I didn't want to mirror (arrow keys, enter, shift, etc.) and it's a powerful combo!  Really smooths out general work and editing (I still use 2 hands on the keyboard for full-on word processing). 
 
Pro tip: even if you're not going to go as extreme as me, consider assigning "control" to one of your mouse buttons; I use that with    half-qwerty more than anything else!
 
Because I don't really need Enter, Backspace, etc. to be mirrored, I'm hoping to fill Tab and those other spots in with the keys that aren't properly mirrored (quotation mark, brackets, etc.), but I'm having trouble. 

 

It's easy enough for me to do something like:
Space & CapsLock:: Send, {'}
which works, BUT if I press shift-space-capslock, I still get a single quote ('), not the double quote I was hoping for (").  The things I've tried haven't worked, and I'm still pretty new to these scripts, so any suggestions would be appreciated.

[space]

You could try something like this - check if the shift key is pressed, if so... else ... don't know how it will work with the half-qwerty so ymmv

Space & CapsLock::
If GetKeyState("Shift","P")
	Send, "
else	
	Send, '
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