AutoHotkey Community

[savage]

I remember reading in some "this is my sexy desktop" thread on some linux forum about a guy who had something set up where he could edit things like forum posts, emails, etc. in vim. I thought that might be nice to have, so I whipped it up in ahk. You can easily configure it to work with any editor. The point is to have better editing control when typing long things into limited text boxes. I'm writing this post using this script .

[Chris]

Sweet script; I'm using it now. It could definitely help prevent loss of data when something goes awry during a post (dropped connection, power outage, etc.) -- not to mention being much nicer and easier to edit text with your favorite editor.

Because it's so simple and useful, this script probably belongs in the Script Showcase.

[savage]

[jonny]

Hey, someone noticed it!

More often then not, my "junk scripts" just pass through the system. It's nice to actually see one of them pop up later on.

[savage]

I'm always keen to avoid work, so I'll recycle your gui .

[jonny]

That's what it's there for.

[Soapspoon]

This is very cool. I can even edit an Outlook email in vim if I want! Crazy stuff, thanks for sharing.

[Payam]

[jonny]

Vim is not like other editors. It has entirely different concepts driving it. Most people I know who've used it love it and usually prefer it to WYSIWYG editors (any normal edit control in windows is a WYSIWYG). One of the things that makes it so unique is it's key bindings. Rather than relying on tricky, counter-intuitive hotkeys, each regular key does something in the editor. A few of the keys take you to an input method where you actually type. Personally, I prefer Emacs, which is similar, but only in that it differs completely from other editors. (for Windows, it's XEmacs) Anyway, it's your choice; generally, Linux users are more attracted to these editors than Windows users, being that they were originally console-based (they still feel more familiar in the console).

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[savage]

@soappoon, did you see my script that lets you use basic vim keys anywhere in windows? It's still a little dodgy, but pretty sweet. When I'm using Visual Studio it lets me use my :w save reflexes, rather than remembering to use ^s .

Edit: Found it. My version is at the bottom. http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1432

[Atomhrt]

savage, this is pretty cool! I've found another handy use for your script. I've been looking for something to do spell checking in Miranda chat windows. With two minor changes to your script it can be used with Aspell. This opens up a few clients for me to use because I needed a spell checker. I tested this with Exodus as well.

In fact, I'm using the same script to spell check this post.

Here is what I did.
1) Changed the editor to point to aspell.exe.
2) Changed the Runwait statement to this: RunWait, %editor% -c "%path%"

Basically, I think this script will work with just about any chat client.

I am a happy camper... Thx.

Note: nConvers has a problem with ctrl-a and this looks to be an nConvers bug. I instead used the standard SRMM plugin. (Yes, I know that nConvers has spell checking, but it does not work with Office 2003).
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[UweHolst]

Hi,

thank you. I do have to make software tests with Rational Robot. A great tool for testing with very poor editing posibilities. With your script i can use my beloved UltraEdit and have the SQA scripts ready in a very comfortable way.

Uwe

[urlwolf]

Savage,

Thanks for a great script. I had the same idea, but 2 years later and my
implementation didn't really work. Glad I was pointed to your script.