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@brotherS

In PSPad, check Settings>Edit Clip Definition File>Autohotkey

If this does not show Autohotkey, its probably not installed.

also
Syntax highlighting only shows when extension is saved as .ahk, a trap I fell into when creating new scripts not saved yet.

dB (who wants code folding)

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Everyone makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils. Milhouse, The Simpsons

Just as a side note:
UltraEdit support codes folding. But it is not freeware.

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toralf

not freeware = crap
UltraEdit = crap (not freeware)

...on the other hand shareware is... Evil! ...at least some stuff that's "not freeware" is upfront about it...

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This opinion is too extreme for me.
Not everything can or will be freeware.

Just because something is not freeware means that it is crap. And freeware by itself doesn't make a software perfect/good/excellent.

There are good software in commercial software and freeware
and there are crap software in commercial software and freeware

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toralf

JSLover likes to make measured and temperate sentences...

I don't use shareware, as freewares supply 99% of my needs.
But I don't think shareware is evil either. Why should it be?
Some people work hard to make software as good as they can, and they have customer thinking their program is good enough to pay for it.
And that's OK, programmers must eat and have a home and buy computers...

I don't like UltraEdit (personnal taste), but I think it is full featured and powerful. It probably has some features other text editors doesn't have. It seems to have enough customer to testify for that.

Same for other sharewares. Some make me laught, because I know some freewares that are much better (who pay for a file renamer?), but if authors can earn some money with naive users which don't what to search further, why not.

What is evil is adwares. Some are obnoxious but inoffensive, like most chat programs (Microsoft's included) or previous version of free Opera browser, but too much of them include spywares, which is truely evil.

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

SciTE supports code folding, is freeware (and open source) but currently doesn't have a AutoHotkey lexer.
It may have one someday, if I find some time to work on it. I am defining some rules based on the doc.

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

Take a look here: http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/scite/
Amazing what was done with Scite, it is almost as covenient as a Delphi IDE
I think borrowing the ideas cannot harm.

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Is there another word for synonym?

I have to throw in a vote for jEdit. I took a look at PSPad, and it looks like a good editor. But I currently am trying out jEdit, and I don't see myself switching any time soon. I've used it for programming in ColdFusion and PHP, as well as AHK, and am very happy.

• Code Folding
• Auto-completion via plug-ins and configurable xml files
• Columnar selection/insertion/deletion
• FTP (open files on ftp server and it copies uploads them every time you hit save)
• Configurable syntax coloring via xml files. AHK is distributed with a macro that will install the AHK stuff automatically.
• Nice hypersearch feature that lists every occurence of text... in context
• Write your own Java BeanShell scripts to do pretty much anything. This is their macro architecture. Very powerful. And if you already know a little Java, you're in!
• RegEx searching and replacing
• AutoBackup that keeps the last x number of saves
• Plug-in architecture to write your own, or just download really useful stuff from website
• Lots of options to tweak the interface to your liking
• Forum community support and tips
• Word completion gives you a list of all the words in the document that begin with what you just typed. This is great for those long variable names that you used somewhere at the top of your document.
• Appending text you copy to the clipboard (when you want to), rather than having it replace it
• QuickCopy (apparently a Unix funzie). Select some text you want to copy to a different location, then just middle-click where you want it to be copied to and it's there. It doesn't use the clipboard. Me like. This also works kinda in reverse as you are typing out a command or function call. As you are typing, and you are ready to type in a variable name from above in your code, you just leave your caret where it is and middle-button-drag the variable name above to have it insert it where your caret was. Very cool for quickly filling in functions.
• The TaskList plug-in looks in your code for "// TODO:", "<!-- TODO:", and "/* TODO:" style comments and puts them together into a task list for each page.
• Ctrl-D deletes a line. I never knew how handy that would be!
• Right-click menu is totally configurable for frequently-used commands.
• Abbreviations, which will expand out to longer text that you have preprogrammed.
• Markers, like bookmarks within files
• File system browser to open files without having to leave jEdit.
• Multiple views of same document via window splitting.
• Multiple "Registers", which are like multiple clipboards, you can copy text to and from them.
• Keyboard shortcuts are all configurable and can be bound to any command or macro
• Bracket matching
• Console access
• Select a tag, and it's pair is also highlighted.
• Good help documentation
• It's free

HELP WITH PSPAD AHK SUPPORT

I am trying pspad and am pleased with the ctrl-j complete with variables as well (WOW!)

But i have tried the click on this to make PSpad like AHK thing and i still cant get it to color code ahk files

i looked in settings>set clip def file> and autohotkey isnt there

help anyone? I have the newest ver. of PSpad.

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"Power can be given overnight, but responsibility must be taught. Long years go into its making."

Did you try this? : http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7279&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

I'm investigating on PSPad if I can use it for my purposes. So far I'm pretty impressed. I have suggested some changes to the *.def file in this post. But I also have some questions regarding the F9 and Ctrl+F9 shortcuts (Run and compile with log file). It would be great if someone of you PSPad users could take a look since you might have found a answer already. Thanks.

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toralf

@hurricanedavid
I had a look at jEdit yesterday and like many other Java-Applications I do not like it's style and it doesn't offer anything I really missed at PSPad..

@Toralf
I did never use F9 up to now ^^
My Scripts do have a reload-Hotkey during development

Thalon

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Ok, here is the solution for PSPad for the question asked in this post

For a) you have to specify for the external program:

Name : AutoHotKey
Program: cmd.exe /c C:\Programme\AutoHotkey\AutoHotkey.exe /ErrorStdOut "%File%" > "%Dir%%Name%_run.log"
Log-File: %Dir%%Name%_run.log

For Name you can use any name I guess
For Program be sure to use the "" like I did, you'll have to adjust the path to your AHK.exe.
For Log-File be sure NOT to use the "".

Now if you call this extrenal program (if it is the first in the list just press F9), it will start the script. The log file will be shown in the lower part of the PSPad Gui. If there is an error during start time it will be listed. I haven't checked yet what happens if there is a runtime error.

EDIT: Please make sure you have set "SetWorkingDir, %A_SCRIPTDIR%" in your scripts. Otherwise relative paths (where you assume the path is A_SCRIPTDIR) might not work when you run the script from within PSPad.


For b) I have created a script that is called instead of the compiler, it compiles the script, writes the log file and it counts the number of times the script got compiled. All this information will be shown in the log file area in the lower part of the PSPad Gui. When I'm sure it works well, I will post it as well. If you can't wait for it, let me know and I'll post the beta version.

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toralf