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I have plenty of uses:

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Keyboard layout:

my whole keyboard layout used to be a remapping with AHK :)

not done by me though and the new implementation of the layout is something else (https://www.neo-layout.org/)

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Complicated Shortcuts:

I still use it for generating and filling site specific mail addresses with a shortcut. My keyboard types "shortcut_site_specific_mailaddress" and ahk replaces it with news.ycombinator.com+is_allowed_to_pass_catch_all@mydomain.com.

For some time it was also the one tool that could dim my dell desktop screen by hotkeys with some shady dll someone provided.

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Usability:

I also used it for alt+drag for a while (but now have a more native tool with exactly that name).

Capslock lights up if I am not in my native input language

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Stress Relieve:

When mobile testing a lot in the emulator I got slight inflammation from clicking the mouse too much. If that happens I remap the left mouse key to the keyboard.



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