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[Chris]

This is an interim version that has the new Input command in it. If any of you have time and have an interest in this capability, perhaps you can test and out prior to Tuesday, which is when I plan to release the next version.

Here is a description of the new command, which has fairly far reaching capabilities:
http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/Input.htm

And here is the special installer that contains this interim version of the program:
http://home.tampabay.rr.com/kodi/ahk/AutoHotkey1009-input.exe

Since this is a fairly major feature, following Rajat's wisdom and getting feedback, improvements, and corrections prior to release seems best.

[beardboy]

Installed and testing with different scripts. Everything looks good so far. Thanks again for another great addition to AutoHotkey.

thanks,
beardboy

[Rajat]

I've checked the new command....wow! ...very impressive!

[Chris]

[Rajat]

[Chris]

That example works for me. I thought you said there was a problem with the wildcard option, but you didn't include an asterisk in the options, so it needs an exact match.

Here is a revised version that uses the wildcard. I also changed it to use IfInString since that goes along with the wildcard approach:

[Chris]

Thoughts after viewing Rajat's new script:
Since one of the objectives of "hot strings" is to make them easy to define, perhaps some more high level features should be built-in to the program. For example:

AutoReplace, btw, by the way
...
AutoReplace, btw, OFF ; Turn off this hotstring.

Since such features could internally make use of the Input command, they might not be too hard to implement.

Another technique that might be worth documenting is the use of Gosub to avoid the "else if" ladder to handle the matches:

Input, UserInput, , {enter}, btw,otoh
if ErrorLevel = Match
Gosub, %UserInput%
return

btw:
Send, {bs 3}by the way
return

Another idea is to add an option that changes the interpretation of the MatchList so that every abbreviation is paired with some autoreplace text:

Input, UserInput, R, {enter}, btw,by the way,otoh,on the other hand

[Rajat]

[Chris]

[Rajat]

[Rajat]

while testing the * feature i had the asterisk... dunno how it missed in the post. though the real problem was that i didn't use IfInString.
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[Chris]

[Rajat]