Limiting Keyboard Shortcut based on Window Title

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I've been using Keyboard Maestro for one relatively simple use case: When I press the delete key (on my keyboard) while using Mail.app, I want the message to be archived instead of deleted. I accomplish this in KM by not only limiting the shortcut to Mail.app, but filtered on windows that match a certain title regex ((.*\([0-9]* messages\).*)|Inbox).

It occurred to me that I could probably replicate this functionality in BTT (and remove the need to leave KM running) if I could figure out a way to reproduce the window title regex stuff. Without the regex limit, while I can "delete to archive" in Mail, I also can't backspace while composing messages :slight_smile:

I didn't see anything obvious while poking around BTT, but I also haven't done much with the keyboard shortcuts to date.. Any advice would be super appreciated!

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Just found this out. You can use activation groups. Use the "plus" sign on the left hand side and add a conditional activation group. There you can set the conditions and even use a regexp for window title for example.

(Sorry, I'm translating the labels from german back to english. YMMV)

Kind regards
Dennis

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I also recently figured this out! I had forgotten I had posted this so thanks for following up with the tip!