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README.md

Shrug Emoji inserter

This is how I have it setup where I click on an item in the OSX top menu. You could probably do something like trigger it with a key combo but you'll have to figure that out on your own. I'm fine with this approach.

Step 1:

Take either of the .scpt files below and save the script to your ~/Library/Scripts folder
Note: The shrug-JXA.scpt only works in OSX 10.10 and above (including MacOS)

Step 2:

Getting your User Scripts to show up in the top menu

Start the Apple Script Editor app: Applications > Utilities > Script Editor
and in the preferences turn on "Show Script menu in menu bar"

Step 3:

Time to use it!! Click on the item in the Script menu making sure your cursor is placed somewhere that you want the text pasted to

shrug-applescript.scpt

# Shrug Script
# ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#
# contains special character:
# ツ
# KATAKANA LETTER TU
# Unicode: U+30C4
# UTF-8: \xE3\x83\x84

set the clipboard to "¯\\_(ツ)_/¯"
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "v" using command down

shrug-JXA.scpt

/*
 * Shrug Script - JXA version (OSX Yosemite and newer)
 * ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 * contains special character:
 * ツ
 * KATAKANA LETTER TU
 * Unicode: U+30C4
 * UTF-8: \xE3\x83\x84
 */
 
var app = Application.currentApplication()
app.includeStandardAdditions = true
var seApp = Application('System Events')

// set current app's clipboard  
app.setTheClipboardTo("¯\\_(ツ)_/¯");

// paste!
seApp.keystroke('v', { using: 'command down' });