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I'm always indenting text areas where I believe the information needs to be emphasized… mainly in support forums and on peoples blogs, comments area.

I've got a hotkey setup to push text over 5 chars with a CTRL SHIFT to indent that line…

But what I would really like to do is be able to assign a HOTKEY to allow the selected text [if it's one sentence or a few of them] to be all indented.

I realize I need to limit the width of the text being selected to something like 80 chars [or something], but then I have to chop the end of the sentence close to that length and push it to the next line, where I have to add spaces, measure that line and chop that line; repeating the process until done. Argh! My brain is melting…

My biggest issue; I don't know how to loop through the lines and I'm not understanding how I push the cut portion to the next line, indent and then cut that line; I'm out of my zone on this one.

Has anyone done this? Examples?
Can someone please show me how to do this?

Your time is appreciated…

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Later,
LEHenryJr.

1) Cut selected text
2) http://www.autohotkey.net/~hugov/tf-lib.htm#TF_Wrap
3) http://www.autohotkey.net/~hugov/tf-lib ... sertPrefix
4) Paste

Done (you can use the clipboard as a variable Clipboard:=TF_Wrap(Clipboard) etc)

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TF : Text files & strings lib, TF Forum

Hugo,
Thanks man… that's a great reference information, but I'm putting efforts in to keeping the whole thing in one file. I see that you can use the file as a great functions reference for other things/functions…

I'm not able to figure out how to do it in one section yet…

I'm going hack with it; see if I can make it work and get back to you guys..
I'm much obliged...

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Later,
LEHenryJr.

Hugo,
You're awesome man, but I just can't figure out the processing on what I need to do to get it in to a single file… thanks anyway.

I did another search on the forum for 'wordwrap' and found this… it was, or seemed much shorter in coding…



1. It's not keeping the [enter][cr] from the TEXTTOWRAP, so the formatting is jacked up. I'd like to have the function, but I'd speculate I could live without it…

2. For the PREFIX, I have tried {space 5}, `, and other variations, but I'm not able to get the five spaces to indent the text.
Any ideas? [confused]


I also found this:


This seems MUCH simpler, it keeps the [CR] for the text, but it's not indenting the text on every line…like the first two lines of each paragraph…

Any suggestions?

Which one is easier to work with? Which is the better option?

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Later,
LEHenryJr.

This is short and simple I don't understand why you wouldn't want to use a library, that is what they are for, they are just as portable as a regular script if you use #include. If you really want to you can simply take the code from both TF functions and use those in one function or label.

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Hugo, Thanks again…
I did; I tried to pull out all the functions from the TF.AHK, but I didn't know what was out of whack for me… and to be perfectly honest, your code is far exceeds me; I was just having a hard time finding out what I was doing wrong. That's when I went searching for other examples/code…

Mainly, I have one file [AHK] that does everything; I've been putting efforts in to keeping it that way because it's the main one I use. But I do use the other one for bitly.AHK— that works great and it's in a separate AHK file completely.

I'd speculate, for now, I'd like to keep everything in one file so I can compile it. I haven't been able to compile my file if they link to something else external…

I made my final changes to it:


So I can do a WINDOWS + I and then indent the text/ wrapping at 60 chars.
Works perfect!

Thanks for your help...
I hope you have a nice day!

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Later,
LEHenryJr.

That's peculiar, because if you compile the compiler makes sure everything that is needed (#includes, LIB) is included, external files such as icons and other non AutoHotkey resources (DLLs, images) will not be included unless you use some 'tricks' (search the forum on how to include an icon IN the script for example). Anyway, glad it works.

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TF : Text files & strings lib, TF Forum

I'm not sure if this will help you, but I use the following to indent blocks of text (or code) a variable amount. I use this very often (several times per day) to move blocks of text a number of spaces to the right or left.

You might like to skip to the end of this post and try the "summarized" example I have written and included near the bottom of this post. It may be the easiest way for you to understand what this code does and you might like to try it before reading any further.

In the following code, press ALT+SHIFT+I to invoke my "Indent" hotkey.
If you wish to indent from one through nine spaces, follow the ALT+SHIFT+I with a single digit from 1 to 9 followed by the ENTER, SPACE or ESC key.
Alternatively, if you wish to indent more than 9 spaces, enter a number from 10 thru 99 without the need to follow it by anything.

After you do this, the semicolon will take on a different role.

Everytime you press the semicolon, it will execute the subroutine Lab_Semi_Indent_Fun() and that will cause the text to the right of the cursor to be indented a number corresponding to the number you entered and the cursor will then drop down to the next line in the position ready to indent that line.

So, if you wish to indent six rows, you can just press the semicolon six times. Alternatively, you can use the "typematic" effect of the keyboard and press and hold the semicolon.

When you are finished using the semicolon in this way, you can press CTL-F12 to reload your script and the semicolon will revert to normal.

I hope this might come close to what you want to do.

SUMMARIZED EXAMPLE:

This is the example I recommend you try in order to see first hand what this function does and how it works. This example moves text in your current document on the current line. It moves the text seven spaces to the right on ten successive lines:

1) move your cursor to the position from which you wish to begin this move.
2) press ALT+SHIFT+I followed by 7 followed by ENTER, SPACE or ESC.
3) press the semicolon ten times as quickly as you like.
4) press CTL+F12 to reload your script file and cause the semicolon to revert back to its previous state.




I use the following: