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The official repository of Spoon plugins (by Hammerspoon)

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dotfiles		Spoons
	Project
1	Mentions	5
2	Stars	425
-	Growth	1.4%
9.2	Activity	2.7
14 days ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
Python	Language	Lua
-	License	-

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dotfiles

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-12.

Hammerspoon – Lua-based powerful tool automation of macOS
15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Dec 2021

Spoons

Posts with mentions or reviews of Spoons. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-30.

WiFiTransitions Example lua file
1 project | /r/hammerspoon | 30 Jun 2023

See: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/Spoons/blob/master/Source/WiFiTransitions.spoon/init.lua
PyPI announces mandatory use of 2FA for all software publishers
3 projects | /r/programming | 30 May 2023

here's one I (partially) wrote for hammerspoon. https://github.com/Hammerspoon/Spoons/blob/master/Source/Token.spoon/init.lua
Alternative way of sharing spoons
3 projects | /r/hammerspoon | 1 Jan 2022

This is crossposted from this issue: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/Spoons/issues/255.
Hammerspoon – Lua-based powerful tool automation of macOS
15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Dec 2021

Not OP, but I found this after a little bit of searching:
https://gist.github.com/dshnkao/10865f32d69e40dc591e08e3af97...
Shouldn't be that hard to spawn a terminal with this running from hammerspoon.
Here's some Spoons that handle translation:
https://github.com/Hammerspoon/Spoons/blob/master/Source/Dee...
Since everyone is getting more familiar with lua I want to give a shout out to hammerspoon
2 projects | /r/neovim | 9 Sep 2021

Fyi: I made a spoon that gives proper help docs and completion for hammer spoon. You can find it here https://github.com/Hammerspoon/Spoons/pull/240

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dotfiles and Spoons you can also consider the following projects:

espanso - Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust

hammerspoon - Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

dot-hammerspoon - My personal Hammerspoon configuration - mirrored from GitLab

jira-issues.spoon - Jira issues in your menubar

spacehammer - Hammerspoon config inspired by Spacemacs

phoenix - A lightweight macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript

hammerspoon - A hammerspoon config with a bunch of custom spoons (sleep timer, resolution changer, paywall buster, safari hotkey utilities, window management with undo, etc).

Anycomplete - The magic of Google Autocomplete while you're typing. Anywhere.

setup - My config, system settings, utilities, etc.

Translate-for-Hammerspoon - Google Cloud Translation API integration to Hammerspoon