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No firm date or design yet, mostly because of a lack of knowledge on my part, and also because of the expectation that only a very small percentage of users would benefit.

Although it doesn't support hotstrings, one thing related to this is AutoItX, which is a DLL/COM control which can add features such as Send and ControlSend to other programming/scripting languages.

LUA is a nice language and it should be pretty straightforward to integrate it into (or make at least accessible from) AHK. I have had a very cursory glance (VERY cursory) over the required steps and it seems doable.

Another thing I am pursuing is integrating Perl. I am one of those old-fashioned guys who learned the ropes before Python and PHP came around, so integrating Perl would be a boon for me. Embedding Perl should not be really difficult, I must just find a time slot to do it

I would probably do the integration via a few DllCall()s but once the stuff actually works, I imagine it should be easy to integrate the code (perhaps as a new command) into AHK itself.

Thanks. I'll look forward to seeing your findings.

There is also an API by Microsoft called Active Scripting. I think quite a few other languages use this to glue in support for VBS and other scripting languages. Here are some links:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issue ... fault.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issue ... fault.aspx