https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/ 2026-04-12T07:10:13+00:00 https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/ https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/_media/wiki/logo.png text/html 2022-04-17T21:37:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/action/Search_using_Regular_Expression?rev=1650231474&do=diff Search using Regular Expression Action The Search using Regular Expression action allows you to search a clipboard, variable, a file (v8+) or some text (v8+) for a regular expression and capture what you find to one or more variables. This can be very useful for splitting apart the contents of a variable. text/html 2023-09-12T09:30:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/action/Search_and_Replace?rev=1694511034&do=diff The Search and Replace action allows you to search and replace the System Clipboard, a Named Clipboard, the Trigger Clipboard (v8+), a variable, some tokenised text (v8+), or a file (v8+). Prior to v8.0 there were separate Search and Replace Variable and Search and Replace Clipboard actions and the results always went back to the source variable or clipboard. text/html 2017-10-04T06:56:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/action/Split_Path?rev=1507100161&do=diff Split Path The Split Path action (v8+) action splits a specified path into its component parts. It is basically just a simplified version of the Search using Regular Expression action specifically to split the path into the component parts. The path is split in to: * Parent path text/html 2024-11-22T07:50:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/action/For_Each?rev=1732261845&do=diff For Each Action The For Each action loops over a set of collections of items, setting a variable to each value and executing the contained actions. It is one of several Actions that loop through a set of other Actions until some criteria is met. Whenever you need to deal with a list of things (lines, files, volumes, numbers, etc), the For Each action is a good place to start. text/html 2022-09-18T02:49:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/action/Switch_or_Case?rev=1663469398&do=diff Switch/Case Action The Switch/Case action is used to perform different actions based on different values of a common parameter. It is very similar to the JavaScript Switch statement. The Switch Action is a good alternative to using multiple, nested, If/Then Actions. The actions in the first section that matches will be executed. If no section matches, then no actions will be executed and the execution will continue after the Switch/Case action. Under no circumstances will actions from more t… text/html 2020-12-14T02:56:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/action/Display_Text?rev=1607914582&do=diff Display Text Action The Display Text Action provides two very different functions: * Display Text in a Popup Window * Insert Text in a Text Document or Text Field Action Screenshot When you initially insert this Action, it looks like this: text/html 2016-09-12T05:44:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/action/Insert_Text?rev=1473659071&do=diff The Insert Text actions can be very useful to insert standard text templates, such as your signature, address, copyright or other boilerplate text. There are three ways to type text in Keyboard Maestro: * Insert Text by Typing — type the plain text as a sequence of keystrokes. text/html 2021-10-12T05:10:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/action/Manipulate_a_Window?rev=1634015403&do=diff Manipulate a Window Action The Manipulate a Window action allows you to operate on a window, in a specified application, with a wide variety of actions like scale, move, resize, bring to front, etc. (see complete list below). :!: Note: All units are in text/html 2023-09-15T08:10:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/action/Press_a_Button?rev=1694765458&do=diff Press a Button Action The Press a Button action presses a named button in the front window. As well as pressing buttons, you can perform other actions (v11.0+) such as showing the menu for the button, or incrementing or decrementing a slider, or canceling the button.... text/html 2017-09-07T08:11:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/action/Search_Clipboard?rev=1504771866&do=diff text/html 2017-09-07T08:10:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/action/Search_Variable?rev=1504771849&do=diff text/html 2019-05-20T01:33:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/action/Select_or_Show_a_Menu_Item?rev=1558315990&do=diff The Select or Show a Menu Item action selects a menu item OR shows (opens) a menu in the main menubar. You can choose to execute a menu in the front application, or in a specific application (in which case the application is briefly brought to the front, the menu is selected, and then the front application is restored).... text/html 2018-12-30T14:58:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/action/Set_Clipboard_to_Text?rev=1546181901&do=diff The Set Clipboard to Text action allows you to set the system clipboard to plain or styled text. Select the clipboard to set from the Set pop-up. Choose from the to pop-up either: * plain text. * styled text. Enter the text to use in the text area. To set the clipboard to styled text paste already styled text from another source. text/html 2023-09-15T09:44:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/action/Set_Variable_to_Text?rev=1694771065&do=diff Set Variable to Text Action The Set Variable to Text action allows you to set a selected variable to plain text, by either typing in the text box, or selecting a Token. Alternatively (v9.0+), you can Prepend the text to the variable, or Append the text to the variable by selecting from the action (gear) ⚙ menu. text/html 2023-05-15T04:22:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/action/Write_to_a_File?rev=1684124569&do=diff Write To File Action The Write to a File and Append Text to a File actions allow you to write data from a variety of sources to a file on disk. Write or append the current system clipboard, a named clipboard, a variable, some text or some styled text (you can write but cannot append styled text).