hotkey
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- noun
- /ˈhɑːtˌki/
- Specialized
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tecla de acceso rápido
- To increase efficiency, developers can create a hotkey that saves their work with a single key press.
Examples
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With the Marked Bonus Pack for Sublime Text, I can hit a single hotkey and have my Markdown document instantly previewed in a window; then, it's CMD+Shift+C to copy the HTML code and post on MacStories.
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You can assign hotkeys to your clipboard history or groups of oft-used text snippets.
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There are hotkeys automatically set up, such as "B," which will read out one button per press in the tab order.
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You can change the hotkey from Alt to Ctrl.
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Each clipping can be assigned a custom hotkey for quick pasting into any running program.
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Ditto sits in the system tray, providing access to its features from the tray icon or using a global hotkey.
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Pressing the hotkey CTRL + C quickly copies the selected text to your clipboard.
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Using the hotkey ALT + T opens the tools menu in many software applications.
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Etymology
Hotkey comes from putting hot and key together; hot here means 'ready for immediate use', like in hotline, and key is a button on a keyboard. So a hotkey is a key or combination of keys that does something right away, which explains its modern meaning.