Quickey is a TSR keystroke macro processor that can save your fingers some typing and facilitate navigation within programs. Quickey acts on plain text macro files you create (or you can create macros on the fly). Uses about 11K conventional memory when resident.
Basic usage is simple, e.g.:
If you load Quickey with the file MY.MAC, where MY.MAC is a plain text file containing the following macro definition:
<BEGDEF><AltQ> My long and repetitive text <ENDDEF>
An Alt-Q keystroke will output the string "My long and repetitive text".
Syntax: QK [option]
/l filepath Loads a macro file and installs or re-enables QK.
/s filepath Saves the current macros to a file. Doesn't alter
the disable status. QK must be installed first.
/c filepath Checks the macro file and reports the minimum size
required for QK to load it.
/r Removes QK and releases memory if possible. Otherwise
just disables QK.
/a [+]hh:mm:ss m Activates a macro (m) at a specified time. Note that
macro keys may be denoted by naming them, e.g. <AltQ>
but they must be quoted to DOS; "<AltQ>"
/d Disables QK, but leaves installed with current macros.
Usage: press <Alt=> to Start a macro definition,
<Alt-> End the definition,
<the defined key> Playback (expand) the macro,
<AltESC> Abort a definition or expansion,
flushing keyboard buffer.
Notes: Docs could be more informative – and they are missing some available options (use QK2 /? instead). Also note that this program relies on the ALT key for some functions – many programs use the ALT key for menu access.
Author: David Weiss (1995), Suggested by Howard Schwartz.
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