Scoot

_Meet Scoot, your friendly cursor teleportation and actuation tool._

Scoot helps you efficiently move your mouse cursor, using keyboard shortcuts!

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Scoot is a tiny utility app that provides fast, keyboard-driven control over the mouse pointer. Scoot lets you move your mouse—and click and drag, too—all from the comfort of your keyboard.

Scoot supports two primary navigation modes: element-based, and grid-based.

• Element-based navigation: MacOS accessibility APIs are used to find user interface elements, such as buttons and links, on the user's screen. (In this mode, Scoot will look for elements in the focused window of the frontmost app.) Here, for example, Scoot has identified the only link on the page _("More information...")_, and assigned it the key sequence "aa":

• Grid-based navigation: all connected screens are subdivided into a grid of equally-sized cells.

Each location is identified by a unique character sequence, making each element (or cell) uniquely addressable with the keyboard — simply type the associated key sequence to teleport your mouse cursor to that location.

Scoot also supports moving the mouse cursor using text editing keyboard shortcuts that you're likely already familiar with (specifically, those for moving the insertion point). Scoot supports standard MacOS text editing shortcuts, as well as Emacs and vi keybindings. For a full breakdown, see the [usage documentation](#usage).