double tap hotkey

[Alan He]

How to set a double-click hotkey, such as double T

 

I have tried， double-shift is work，but double d or double t is not work .etc ,and computer beeped ， why?

 

because hotkey conflict？

 

 

Edited May 4, 2020 by Alan He
update

[Andrew]

Double tap is only available for the modifier keys such as cmd, shift, alt.

 

It's not possible to set a character as a double tap. This would interfere with every day operation, for example, if you wanted double tap t, then it would trigger when typing "button".

[Alan He]

I understand, thank you, I will use modifier to achieve.

 

Thank you

 

double tap supported modifier keys is ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ ⇧ 

Edited May 5, 2020 by Alan He

[P-D]

Isn't the double tap hotkey a fantastic feature?! (Keys on the sides of the keyboard are faster to find than in the interior. Two strokes on the same key is simpler than two different keys, and fundamental to human language development to show voluntary utterances, cf. da-da, pa-pa, ma-ma, a-a, oh-oh and so on.)

 

However, sometimes when typing a double tap is fired ‘by mistake’. Is there anyway you can set a specific time interval for the tapping to be considered a ‘double tap’?

 

(In my case I have a very useful workflow that opens Drafts’ Capture window with ⇧ double tap, and fills it with OS selection if any, ⌥ double tap the same with the clipboard and ⌘ double tap with pre-filled notes for a meeting or a phone call on the fly. It happens though, that fast typing may trigger those double taps accidently. The benefit is still greater than the harm but it would be even better if there was an easy way to avoid this behavior.)