An updated guide to replacing Shiftit with Hammerspoon

A couple of years ago, my beloved Shiftit application stopped doing the right thing. Shiftit, if you don't know, is a window manager that gives me keybindings to move windwos around on macOS. It's a treasure, and gives me the kind of window management I'd become accustomed to in Linux and even -gasp (!) - Windows.

Unfortunately, it died. No idea why. But my friend and yours Matt Raible discovered an alternative some years ago that I quite like: Hammerspoon.

He wrote a great blog post about it, which I linked to in early 2022. Unfortunately that configuration no longer works, either. So, here instead are the even easier, known-to-work-on-a-fresh-macOS-installation, steps for the configuration I'm now rocking.

• install Hammerspoon: brew install --cask hammerspoon
• then install the Spoon (a "plugin" for Hammerspoon) called hammerspoon-shiftit
• there are three steps described in the README.md on the hammerspoon-shiftit spoon Github page: follow them!

If you've done all of this, you no longer need Matt's (admittedly brilliant) configurations.