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Titan · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 5009 Location: imaginationland

Dynamically add regular expression type hotstrings.

Example:

hughman · Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 23

rjwilmsi · Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 13

Hmm, this seems interesting, but I can't get it to work.
I've pasted the function and examples into my autohotkey.ini file and reloaded it. I then expected that if I typed Btw in notepad it would be converted to By the way, and if I typed btw it would be converted to by the way. Am I totally missing the point? Does this script not effectively add regex support to hotstrings?

Titan · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 5009 Location: imaginationland

ahklerner · Joined: 26 Jun 2006 Posts: 1090 Location: USA

Used it here
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18110

talkasab · Joined: 28 May 2007 Posts: 2

I like the idea of the dynamic hotstrings and I like the idea of regular expressions in them. But, as other people have described, I'd like to find a way to make dynamic hotstrings that behave more like regular, default hotstrings in that they wait for an non-word character before firing the replacement text.

For example, when defined using the hs() function above, the "btw" entry will expand to "by the way" without waiting for a space or comma afterward. (Which makes it impossible to define multiple hotstrings that use the same root.)

For example, I'd "lb" to expand to "pound", but "lbrt" to expand to liberate, and I haven't figured out yet how to do that using the hs() function above.

(The reason I don't want to use the #Hostring directive or syntax is that I'd like these hotstrings to be dynamically created as part of a compiled script.)

Thanks,
T

Titan · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 5009 Location: imaginationland

That is an important feature that's currently lacking. I've been meaning to update this script for a long time. I'll try work on it soon and release version 2.
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RegExReplace("irc.freenode.net/autohotkey", "^(?=(.(?=[\0-r\[]*((?<=\.).))))(?:[c-\x73]{2,8}(\S))+((2)|\b[^\2-]){2}\D++$", "$u3$1$3$4$2")

engunneer · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 3:33 pm Post subject:

please try

talkasab · Joined: 28 May 2007 Posts: 2

Titan · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 5009 Location: imaginationland

That would work if you typed something like 'btw.' or 'btw!', but these aren't nice solutions so I'll continue working on an update.
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RegExReplace("irc.freenode.net/autohotkey", "^(?=(.(?=[\0-r\[]*((?<=\.).))))(?:[c-\x73]{2,8}(\S))+((2)|\b[^\2-]){2}\D++$", "$u3$1$3$4$2")

engunneer · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:36 pm Post subject:

I didn't have a chance to try it. I also didn't have time to look up the regex, maybe \s was the right one?
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rjwilmsi · Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 13

Hi all,
I've been using this for a while now but have got stuck by one issue:

say i define an entry like this (I have this problem with other examples):

hs("ann(a|e)" , "Ann%$1%")

now this correctly changes:
anna -> Anna
anne -> Anne

however, spaces don't seem to be counted, so these are also incorrectly changed;
ann a -> aAnna
ann e -> aAnne

So it would seem that spaces are ignored by the regex matching? Am I right and can anybody tell me how to fix it?

Thanks

rjwilmsi · Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 13

Please, anybody? I haven't yet resolved this.

tonne · Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 1143 Location: Denmark

Try this:

rjwilmsi · Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 13

Thanks, that's perfect!

For others who may be interested, it's possible to exclude returns and tabs in a similar fashion: