Raycast Just Got You A New Key
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- You can now setup your Hyper Key in Raycast without any third-party app. Say goodbye to hotkey conflicts and give your Caps Lock key - or any other - a new name.
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The toggle that allows caps lock to still be used normally is awesome
IT REALLY IS
this is the one thing that put me off hyperkey for a while, going to revisit it now
Facts. I sacrificed my caps lock rights a few years back. I'm so used to holding down shift THE WHOLE TIME I'M TYPING... No more 🙌🏽
+1 CapsLock was useless untill now. Love it!!!
Yeah, it’s amazing for most people! But I ran into a problem-by default, pressing Caps Lock acts as the Esc key for me. However, after enabling this feature, a single tap on Caps Lock also turns on Caps Lock.
Again a great improvement! 🚀 Sometimes I wake up sweating from a nightmare about Apple acquiring Raycast. I hope Raycast stays around for a long time! 😅
Nice! Now we just need to be able to remove SHIFT from the Hyper Key, so that we can utilize Hyper Key + SHIFT for even more shortcuts. It's what i'm doing currently, and it works great with Caps Lock as the Hyper Key - please consider this
Exactly! I don't get why nobody seem to think of this.
+1 raycast please
this probably works *most of the time* but some apps do use commad+option+control as a keybind. with all 4 there is, to my knowledge, never a conflict. I wish there was a truly pure hyper key that wasn't a chord.
@ right cmd can serve as a hyper key. But then again would be nice to still do right cmd + right option etc
The point of the hyper key is to define a combination of modifiers that's not already used by others, because it's awkward to press. Raycast does not define a new key event that is sent when you press your defined hyper key, but it sends shift+ctrl+opt+cmd together. Removing shift from this would clash with anything that already uses ctrl+opt+cmd in the system.
I've been using raycast basically as a spotlight replacement for over a year. Just in the past month, have I really been using the power of raycast like shortcuts, clipboard history and snippets. Just a GREAT program. Can't wait for Windows so I can use it on my work computer
Welcome to the club! 🫂 And Windows is coming soon, so stay tuned.
@@raycastapp which will come first , windows or iOS ? 🤔
@@raycastapp Linux plss 😭😭
This is amazing! I set it to my caps lock. As soon as I saw the thumbnail I instantly recognized that my capslock is the most useless key I have. I never use it and never have. Now, it's obtained god-tier status as the most useful key on my keyboard in a matter of 4 minutes watching this video. It's going to replace virtually every non-application specific control for me, from terminal to window management and launching all of my apps.
Another great banger, Raycast! Making so many power user features so instantly accessible to people. Life gets easier every day 😂
I’m super glad this is an option now but I wish Raycast also added an option to do “hold vs tap” behavior for hyper key so that I can get ESC when I just tap it.
Exactly my thoughts and the only reason Karabiner is still installed on my system
Voting for this option too! Tap for Caps Lock or ESC
Absolutely! Having Caps Lock as Esc is a must-have feature for me.
But it has this option. What it doesn't have is Esc as an option for the key, weirdly…
This is exactly what I need.
Currently I'm using Karabiner so I can have tap = escape, hold = hyper.
Would be perfect if Raycast made the tap action configurable.
I love being able to uninstall another application thanks to Raycast! One more suggestion: Let us use Caps Lock as ESC when quickly pressing it. That's how I was using it in Karabiner-Elements.
I love that I can use the right control key as the hyperkey. Instantly switched to this vs my other single purpose software. Thanks!
disproportionately big quality of experience upgrade for such a "simple" enhancement - nice win, folks 🔥
Great add. One less app needed. 🚀
This is really great to add, if it could instead of on press doing caps lock press the esc key (vim users will understand) it would be perfect. As a dev this is the one modification I need to set and messing with the karabiner complex rules for this is so overkill. Great addition to raycast
This is a game changer! Especially because it works inside any app. Thank you Raycast!
I’ve been using Karabiner for the last couple years to do this, can’t live without it
THANK YOUUUU!!!! Loss of caps lock ability to be able to use hyper key has always been something I've hated. Now I can have both! ❤
Thank you so much raycast for making our lives easier and constatly give us smart updates like these
That's one of the most anticipated features from Raycast. You guys are amazing! Keep up the good work going! 👍
Thanks for this - finally started using keyboard shortcuts!!! So simple now - with no clashes
Thank you! I’ve been using Karabiner Elements and it has worked great, but I’m very glad to hear that I no longer need it. The hyper key was a game changer for me.
Wow! I'm really excited about this extension. I had already seen a sneak peek in a video and have been waiting for my new Mac to make the toggle with Karabiner Elements. PERFECT Raycast team!!! I really appreciate you guys!
Absolutely love how thoughtful every update is! Kudos to the team!
Wow thanks for adding Hyperkey option built into Raycast now, saves the hassle of installing a Hyperkey app.. Hyperkey has changed the way I use Raycast
The ultimate glory of Raycast. I cannot live without it.
Great! Having layers like Max with the nice GUI would be a great add too!
You just created a very useful button for us all! Out of thin air! GREAT JOB, GUYS!
The new Hyper Key features is fantastic - many thanks!
While on the topic of mimicking other app functionality, it would be pretty nice to utilize the underused Right CMD key like the utility RCMD does for switching apps fast. Best thing that it doesn't require mapping before doing that.
Amazing, I have been a hyperkey on my corne keyboard together with raycast for a long time now
This is insance! I've been wanting this for ages! Thanks Raycast!
So nice. Love the option to still be able to use the CAPS LOCK. My Hyperkey app had randomly silently crashed every few days recently, and that broke all my shortcuts until I would use the "Kill Process" Ray Cast feature to kill it and reopen. The timing on this feature for me couldn't be better. Here's to hoping it's more stable :)
Yes! Been looking for that last week and had to install a separate app just for that. Glad I can to back to just Raycast
Nice! would love to see this extended to other stuff as well, so I can use raycast for simple key remapping, like making the caps lock hyper on hold and escape on press
would be a great replacement for karabiner which I only use it's simpler functionality as I'm already using a bunch of raycast features
2:57 The ability to map that short press to something custom would be a nice feature. I use my caps lock key as an escape key for example. Being able to retain that ability while still being able to use shortcuts would be really nice.
I've had CAPSLOCK mapped to ESC for over a decade - being able to set it to CMD+OPTION+CONTROL would be 👌
Love that Cron is set as alias for Notion Calendar. I am not the only one!
We're at least a dozen!
This especially useful after Apple messed up option key hotkeys after Sequoia update. I have to use ctrl instead. Now I can think about using hyper shortcuts for apps like Things.
Love it!
In Extensions settings, would love the ability to filter by just "custom hotkey" as well or let us click the column headers to sort by those :)
You can do it, just watch the whole video.
I love Raycast every day more!!! thanks! 😊
+1 for the CAPS -> ESC on single press
Loving RayCast so far
Love it! Such a nice implementation with the tap for capslock feature too! 🙌
Could you please enable the use of more than one letter in keyboard shortcuts, like Hyperkey + R + H, or other combinations? This would make using tools like Karabiner unnecessary. It would be great to have functionality similar to the approach by Max Stoiber. Thank you!
Excited! I set this up immediately. I've been using Karabiner Elements, but it occasionally glitches, and I'd rather not have to run an extra app.
This unlock a whole new use cases and shortcuts
Can we also enable the shift not included in hyper key as well? Then we get two versions of hyper key to use.
Same here, would be great to unlock a second layer of shortcuts when combining the shift key.
+1
That was awesome, thanks so much Raycast team!
Would be nice if the tab would not toggle caps but be remappable to Esc, which I this is very important for developers/Vim users. Nice that you implemented this, a bit more customization options would be great.
Raycast is awesome!
Thanks for this perfect app)
I'd love to assign this to the function button!
Amazing! One more thing: could you PLEASE add an option to disable the Caps Lock functionality? The problem is that it eventually switches on, and it's quite inconvenient. Just include something like "Disable Caps Lock Default Functionality" and it'll be absolutely awesome
As a HHKB keyboard user and a semi retired eMacs user, I’m excited😯
This is dope! Add a Drop/park file/files function to raycast like drop zone and I will considder Raycast the new macOS
You just removed another whole ass app off of my Mac. Great job 👍
This is a great update, thanks a lot team!
"if you just press it once, you can still scream at people" 🤣
I was using karabiner, but I'm gonna switch over and try this! I had my capslock bound to shift+caps. It'd be cool if something like that was also an option, I think I'm gonna accidentally turn it on a lot with the quick tap.
If I hold capslocks for a while, but don't hit another key, it turns on capslock, idk if that's intended. A tap would probably be okay, but if I hold it down like I'm gonna do something then change my mind, it's gonna turn on and I'll have to tap capslock again to turn it off.
It also has conflict with bettertouchtool so I'm sticking to karabiner
FINALLY!!!! Thank you guys!
please add the option to customize what the quick press does (like in the hyperkey app).
AWESOME feature! AWESOME Raycast!
I am HYPERed about this feature! 🥳
Can we also allow the option to use Caps Lock as Hyper if held down for a longer duration, but mapped to escape (or any other key) if pressed once? That's my current setup with Karabiner. Press once to escape but hold and press other key for window management.
Would be great to be able to use the FN key. I've noticed that even an indie app like SuperWhisper enables the ability to use FN as its trigger key.
I have had caps lock mapped as ESC for many years so I can't really break that habit (the old touch bar way of getting back the physical ESC key).
Very nice ideia. I alrerady setup and will help me so much.
I've been using caps lock as CTRL for nigh on 20 years now, I don't think I'll be unmapping that muscle memory any time soon lol
Its a hangover from my time as an emacs user, very handy considering macOS supports some of the same text navigation shortcuts (ctrl-a, ctrl-e) as emacs does.
Fair enough! Remapping muscle memory takes time and effort, but sometimes it does pay off 💸
Thank you, this is awesome.
Love you raycast 😍😍😍😍
🫶🫶🫶
how many keyboard shortcuts do yall use?
Small but great update!
After watching your video I changed my shortcuts to use Capslock as hotkey.. It's impossible to write. I noticed that I'm not using shift to make Uppercase, but capslock.. so it triggers Raycast all time.. Changed it back after struggling for few hours :D
This looks great! Now can we do what Max did with Karabiner Elements natively? As in multiple keys as well as the hyper key?
Can we get the option to use a single press and release of a modifier (opt, ctrl, cmd, etc) as a hotkey? If I tap control when setting my hotkey it flashes and then goes away. I used to use Karabiner for this but my work MacBook can’t use Karabiner because of system extension restrictions
This is awesome!! 🎉
Finally 🎉 thank you guys
THIS IS GREAT, I CAN USE CAPS LOCK NOW!!!
Crazy update !! TY 👏🏾
First of all This new feature is commendable and i love it. Kudos to Raycast team.
But i have one thing to share here that if i have to run message so i have caps + M so it will run messages app BUT what if i have to run apple music app? Like it only supports on word. Like isn’t that possible like if I press caps+ two times mm to run Apple Music and if i press one time M then it will run my messages app?
does it apply system wide?
Very nice, but it doesn't work if you have Karabiner installed. Even if Karabiner doesn't touch Caps Lock in any way. Raycast says "Couldn't enable Hyper Key: Quit any other applications which are providing keyboard shortcut customization". Then it works if I disable Karabiner but gets reset on every system reload or wake up because Karabiner probably turns on.
This is really nice!
Can't switch from Karabiner Elements yet though, because I'm using press/hold mapped to different key combinations
That's fair! Karabiner Elements is a great app for advanced users 🚀
@@raycastapp It definitely does its job perfectly!
But if we could change the hyper key press behavior in Raycast I’d switch immediately :)
Wow, I really love it!
Excellent 🎉 Digging in ! 😅
I'd like a way to set a key as a Meh Key - such as the § key. I don't use that for anything else.
Awesome. Thank you very much!
FINALLYYYYYY!!!! I liked this three times just to be sure
Please make sure not to like it 2, 4, 6, 8, or 10 times more
I just tried, but I'm unable to set Caps Lock as a Hyperkey. All other buttons seem to work fine. Hyperkey did work fine for me using the Hyperkey app.
EDIT: Found the problem... I had for some reason set Caps Lock to be the Globe-key in macOS system settings.
You need chords! Hyperkey + F, Hyperkey + F (HK+FF) = Find file, etc.
Amazing! 🔥🔥🔥
That’s yet another app that I can delete because Raycast has its functionality baked in! Raycast has been evolving at a brilliant pace and I could not be more excited!
Does it have less priority than the current window hotkeyx?
I use hyper + left/right arrow to move a window to the left/right half of the string. If I'm on youtube, raycast's hyperkey will not get trigger and when pressing the arrow keys, the youtube video will move progress.
I've had caps lock mapped to control for ages and I'm not about to unlearn that, but I almost never use my right-cmd key. Seems ripe for a remapping!
Now, if only there was an option to make a single tap of caps lock act as escape, and long press act as hyper key
2:57 “Merci beaucoup” -> “AAAAA”
@@PierlucF an actual conversation with my french teacher
how can I use caps lock as escape and hyperkey at the same time
Love this but, you need to completely disable Karabiner for it to work. Can't use both :(
Wow I love this!
Little yes , but powerful at a level of wow 🎉
how about
right_cmd
right_alt
right_shift
fn
to be modifiers as well?
thats why karabiner is so powerful. currently using this app to rebind raycast hotkeys
I will just keep the toggle off. finally caps lock can be used for some real work 🥳
Sometimes REAL work involves a bit of screaming!
Please, don't let Apple buy you. You're so awesome
I use Karabiner to replace Spotlight Button with F4 and run Rayсast. But together it's doesn't works. Raycast tells: couldn't enable Hyper Key: Quit any other applications which are providing keyboard shortcut customization or hyper key support. How can i fix this? 🙂
When can I expect a windows release? I have used raycast on mac for a while and loved it, but recently migrated to windows.
We don't have a release date just yet, but we've just recently welcomed a select group of users into an Alpha version of Raycast for Windows. Stay tuned for more updates soon!
@@raycastapp Thanks for the update, looking forwards to the release! :D
I just use command + space .... never noticed the "hyper key" thing