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[tpatel5]

I know there are 7 folders(possibly for editors ) in "extras/editors" folder of AutoHotkey, but how can I use them? How can I Install them? Or do I have to download the editors from somewhere else?

[BoBo]

This folder contains files which are usefull if you wanna configure your/whatever editor to work with AutoHotkey (AHK). It depends on the editor itself if SyntaxHighlighting and/or AutoReplace is offered.

Finally, yes you've to download one editor of your choice. Check them out. Within the Forum you'll find several postings about which editor is the best (and probaly why). Make your mind.

[Guest (tpatel5)]

Ok

When I search for the Xemacs to download, I found some websites with crazy packages to choose from and I don't understand which one to choose and will work with the autohotkey or my computer (XP home ed) . Plz help.

[jonny]

Download this first. It's the NetInstaller for XEmacs.

Then, open this site in your browser. It's a tutorial with screenshots of the installer. If you get confused about anything during the setup process, simply refer to that tutorial or use the default settings.

P.S. If I were you, I'd go for Native over CygWin (Don't worry about understanding until you see the option in the installer).

[tpatel5]

File in the extras/editors/xemacs folder of autohotkey says:

[jonny]

I'm honestly not sure. When I get around to it, I'll install XEmacs for myself and figure it out, but that might be never. If somone else has experience with XEmacs synfiles, would you mind giving tpatel a hand?

[tpatel5]

Never mind,

I will be happy with my Notepad and AHK editor 1.20.
They work just fine

[jonny]

Whatever floats your boat.

Personally, I prefer PSPad. It's easy as pie to set up, it's the preferred editor of the majority of AHKers, and here's the best part: it comes with an AHK syntax file built-in. It may be daunting if you've never worked with IDEs before, though.

[tpatel5]

How can I make PSpad my default editor for AHK
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[Titan]

[tpatel5]

This is what I did:
I created ahk sript with following line:
RegWrite, Reg_SZ, HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, AutoHotkeyScript\Shell\Run\Command, , C:\Program Files\PSPad\PSPad.exe"%1" %* ;(or the pathname of the file/editor).
And then ran it.

It didn't work, and created another problem for me. Now, none of my ahk sripts works When I double clicked any script it just opened the PSpad (not even the script that I double clicked, just the default new txt file). But when I right clicked an ahk script and selceted edit it still opened up in the notepad.
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[Titan]

Click:

Start > Run > 'regedit', press enter > Expand 'HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT' > Expand 'AutoHotkeyScript' > Expand 'Shell' > Expand 'Run' >>>

Double click the (Default) REG_SZ value to edit it.
Make it "C:\Program Files\AutoHotkey\AutoHotkey.exe" "%1" %* (default ahk) or the respective filename/parameter of your editor.

This works, I've changed it a couple of times. If you're still getting problems which I highly doubt, uninstall/install AutoHotkey.
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[tpatel5]

Thanks Titan

Now everything is working fine.

[Titan]

Sorry, I'm always making silly mistakes lol.
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