Can't remap shortcut to output multiple characters

[ddavies-integral]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.75.1

Installation method

GitHub

Running as admin

None

Area(s) with issue?

Keyboard Manager

Steps to reproduce

Go into keyboard manager and select remap shortcut, choose a shortcut to be remapped (I chose Winkey + F12), then on the right hand side type the text you want it to map to (e.g. "Hello World"). My goal is that every time I press Winkey + F12 it autotypes Hello World for me.

✔️ Expected Behavior

My actual goal is to have a handful of names, locations or whatever that I have to type a handful of times a day and it'd make life easier if I could have them typed for me via a shortcut key. That's what I thought this tool did, but it doesn't seem to.

❌ Actual Behavior

As I typed the test string "Hello World" it thought that each key press I was making was me changing my mind on what I wanted and at the end of the sequence it had mapped Winkey + F12 to the letter 'd'.

Other Software

No response

[Jay-o-Way]

AutoHotkey or PowerAutomate could do this without breaking a sweat!

[ddavies-integral]

I don't know if I can trust AutoHotkey on the machine I use for online banking and work. As for PowerAutomate, that seems like using a nuclear weapon to kill a fly when you already have a fly-zapper but don't know how to turn it on. In my super stretched analogy here, the PowerToy "Remap Shortcut" is the fly-zapper and all I'm trying to get it to do is output more than one character. I would have thought that it was in the top 3 requirements of such a program. #1 remap existing shortcut to something else, #2 remap a new shortcut key combo to a different key combo, #3 map a new shortcut key to a string of characters.

[davidegiacometti]

@Jay-o-Way I think this is a duplicate of #14120
This is planned for the next release of PowerToys 😃

[Jay-o-Way]

It's a duplicate, but not of that issue. AutoHotkay is safe and practically built for this. It's lightweight and still powerful.

[Jay-o-Way]

/dup #5668

[microsoft-github-policy-service]

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!