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[twwilliams]

I've recently started using BlogJet to post to my blog, but it has one limitation: it doesn't have any way to enter "smart" quotation marks and other typographically-correct symbols (such as em dashes).

So I wrote this script that makes it behave like Microsoft Word with its autoformat as you type capabilities:

[Chris]

Looks interesting. It's great that someone's used the Input command for something other than auto-replace (abbreviation expansion).

[twwilliams]

Well, even my use of the Input command is just a variation on auto-replace, since I'm turning -- into an em dash.

But I could imagine turning Input into something like ActiveWords (http://www.activewords.com/) where you can type a word anywhere, and it can become an autoreplace value, or a trigger to launch another process.
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Tommy

[Chris]

ActiveWords sounds interesting. I hope to make auto-replace a more intrinsic feature of AHK in future versions: Something that supports a set of configurable end-word punctation marks , while being easier to script than Input (Input will still have its uses because it is very flexible). With the ideas that others have shared with me, I'm starting visualize auto-replace as a subset of Rajat's "hot strings", which are basically abbreviations that trigger some type of action, whether it be auto-replace or launching a program.