AutoHotkey Community

[a.antonio]

Lets have the script line:

[Serenity]

You can use the built-in variable A_PriorHotkey to get the hotstring label, and have Ctrl+Z send backspace to delete it, eg:

[a.antonio]

Thank you Serenity,

but this seems a bit complicated to apply to hundreds of [different in lenght] strings

so I tried this way, that seems quicker
and does not need to scan each character:
I put the string into the clipboard and then use ^v,

[Serenity]

Yes, I thought it would be a bit much if you had lots of hotstrings. It would be nice if there were built-in variables for the hotstring so then Ctrl+Z could just be something like:

[Dra_Gon]

How about something like this:

[a.antonio]

Yes, this can be considered somehow a step forward.

However the substantial problem in my view remains, in that each byte must be backspaced, i.e. deleted, not undone.
This slows and can get confused with longer strings, but above all it will add a lot of undo steps to the stack of any Undo command, as is into most editors.

The best mode would be to give the choice - once processed the line with its parameters, clipboard included - if to send the string to the keyboard buffer or to the clipboard.
In the 2nd case the previous clipboard content can be stored into a variable, the clipboard filled by the string to be pasted thereafter, leaving the user free to undo it by a single keystroke in any moment; then restore to the clipboard the temporary variable's value; and that's all.
This process is immediate and prevents any other routine (eg. popups) to interfere with unpredictable consequences, depending on the length( ) and the kind of the characters involved.

For a daily example in my Hyphenator-pro project, the RichEdit text editor can handle hundreds of Undo commands, that can apply both to the single byte and to the whole string, according to the real-time setting by the user (see: www.hyphenator.com, you can get it free on request).
I think it could be awful having to cancel and rewrite several HTML command lines together (sent by single bytes), to simply adjust some Tables' setup; but probably we remained very few guys to do such things

I believe that an application of the AutoHotKey's level - the best I've met - should include that option.

Ciao Dra'Gon.
a.antonio

[a.antonio]

Perhaps I was not clear enough (and I'm sorry for my limited English ).
The choice I'm talking about, though available for single lines, should be set at a main level, like an #IfClipbActive or similar command (I don't yet know all them!), so that a defined list of lines can be processed this way. This should simplify a lot.

a.antonio

p.s. - About my link above, a comma was embedded causing an error; should you wish to visit it, please, use the IExplorer (v.6) just for a while! thanks.

[Sivvy]

[a.antonio]

Right! whenever you entitle a routine to be called with a ^z - that is intended by all environment as the Undo command - the one should match the other, therefore the use of the backspace value inside should be considered improper; so it might be due to have taken CTRL-z out.

I'm sorry , Unfortunately I must write in a not native language, while this subject is enlarging more and more.
I had to write:

[Serenity]

[Sivvy]

Would this work for you?

[HugoV]

mmm I haven't read the posts to closely but

[Guest]

[HugoV]

[a.antonio]

Hi Sivvy and HugoV,

thanks for your solutions too;
as you can see above, my purpose was to reduce to one single line a 4-lines command - very efficient so far - that should be repeated for hundreds of lines.

The Sivvy's code works once more on single bytes, and that's not what was asked; it has also the limit that when the string is undone, the hotstring appears again and needs to be undone too.

The HugoV's Function can be called for most cases, reducing to a single parameter-line its job, therefore it seems to match my request.
One limitation that I see is that if the Text is handled as is; i.e. if the string to be pasted includes the current clipboard content, this is not accomplished yet; I have not enough knowledge (and time) for this enhancement, but for such few cases the Send mode works good.

So thanks again.