Two things I was not able to find a good replacement for in Linux when I was last using it a few years ago: Everything and AutoHotKey. Those are so good, and WSL perfectly adequate, that I’m now loath to switch away from Windows.
AHK_X11 is a fairly recent port of AHK for Linux that might be worth checking out; I haven’t used it, but if it’s half as good as the Windows version, it’ll be great. If nothing else, you might like vimium-everywhere, which that’ll let you run.
For Chrome, while Tridactyl might be more powerful, I’ve found Vimium sufficient.
Yes, I vaguely remember using AutoHotKey on Windows as well. If you have a system that is working well for you, I would not recommend switching because switching costs. I think I mostly used AutoHotKey to type special characters more easily on my keyboard. That problem was solved by switching to the neoqwertz which was designed by nerds like me who had already found better solutions to all the problems I had.
If I have a functionality I use frequently enough that I want a Keybind for it, I can usually implement it as a shell one-liner or get Claude to do it for me. Then I can assign a keybind to it in i3 (It allows different modes like in vim, which allows for a lot of different Keybinds).
I do not know a really good tool for text-expansion on linux though. Espanso works but it’s completions are not reliable enough for me to make use of them a lot (I don’t know if AutoHotKey did a really reliable job here either).
I don’t know Everything, but from a first look it looks similar to what you might get out of fzf?
Two things I was not able to find a good replacement for in Linux when I was last using it a few years ago: Everything and AutoHotKey. Those are so good, and WSL perfectly adequate, that I’m now loath to switch away from Windows.
AHK_X11 is a fairly recent port of AHK for Linux that might be worth checking out; I haven’t used it, but if it’s half as good as the Windows version, it’ll be great. If nothing else, you might like vimium-everywhere, which that’ll let you run.
For Chrome, while Tridactyl might be more powerful, I’ve found Vimium sufficient.
Yes, I vaguely remember using AutoHotKey on Windows as well. If you have a system that is working well for you, I would not recommend switching because switching costs. I think I mostly used AutoHotKey to type special characters more easily on my keyboard. That problem was solved by switching to the neoqwertz which was designed by nerds like me who had already found better solutions to all the problems I had. If I have a functionality I use frequently enough that I want a Keybind for it, I can usually implement it as a shell one-liner or get Claude to do it for me. Then I can assign a keybind to it in i3 (It allows different modes like in vim, which allows for a lot of different Keybinds). I do not know a really good tool for text-expansion on linux though. Espanso works but it’s completions are not reliable enough for me to make use of them a lot (I don’t know if AutoHotKey did a really reliable job here either). I don’t know Everything, but from a first look it looks similar to what you might get out of fzf?