Discord: Click to join What is Hammerspoon? This is a tool for powerful automation of OS X. At its core, Hammerspoon is just a bridge between the operating system and a Lua scripting engine. What gives Hammerspoon its power is a set of extensions that expose specific pieces of system functionality, to the user. With these, you can write Lua scripts to control many aspects of your OS X environment. How do I install it? Manually
Download the latest release Drag Hammerspoon.app from your Downloads folder to Applications
Homebrew
brew install hammerspoon --cask
What next? Out of the box, Hammerspoon does nothing - you will need to create ~/.hammerspoon/init.lua and fill it with useful code. There are several resources which can help you:
Getting Started Guide API docs FAQ Sample Configurations supplied by various users Contribution Guide for developers looking to get involved An IRC channel for general chat/support/development (#hammerspoon on Libera) Google Group for support
What is the history of the project? Hammerspoon is a fork of Mjolnir. Mjolnir aims to be a very minimal application, with its extensions hosted externally and managed using a Lua package manager. We wanted to provide a more integrated experience. What is the future of the project? Our intentions for Hammerspoon broadly fall into these categories:
Ever wider coverage of system APIs in Extensions Tighter integration between extensions Smoother user experience