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[drifter]

This project has been discontinued.

AHKIDE is an full-featured editor for AutoHotkey. A stable version has not been released; however, the latest version can be checked out from the SVN repository.

Last Updated:
Wednesday, August 25 2010

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This project is now only available from the SVN repository:
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Features
Context-Sensitive Syntax Highlighting
Parameter-Info Tool-Tips For All Functions (e.g. #Include functions)
Context-Sensitive Code-Completion
Syntax-Error DetectionContext-Sensitive Syntax-Highlighting
Unquoted string highlighting.
AutoHotkey keywords are highlighted only in appropriate contexts.

Parameter-Info Tool-Tips
Tooltip info for commands and functions, including user functions in included files and AutoHotkey Libraries.

Context-Sensitive Code-Completion
More accurate code completion.

Syntax-Error Detection
Syntax errors are reported in the editor. Errors misreported by AutoHotkey are correctly reported in the editor.

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[SoLong&Thx4AllTheFish]

Is it written in AutoHotkey? Does look interesting, although I won't switch to a new editor I must admit. I can see the advantage of such a noob friendly syntax warning styled editor like this, especially if it was included with AutoHotkey itself.

[SifJar]

Is it written in AutoHotkey? Does look interesting, although I won't switch to a new editor I must admit. I can see the advantage of such a noob friendly syntax warning styled editor like this, especially if it was included with AutoHotkey itself.

Looks to me like its written in one of the languages in Visual Studio. The icon of the app gives this impression.

Anyway, looks like a nice app, very much looking forward to its release. I like the idea of the syntax warning. So many times my AHK scripts fail to work because of syntax problems, hopefully something like this will help prevent that.

[Lexikos]

Context-sensitivity ftw. I wouldn't be as enthusiastic about the syntax error-detection though - that example demonstrates how ambiguous scripts can be.

MsgBox := "foo"
if (x) MsgBox
    MsgBox That's valid...

Detecting more common mistakes like x = y + z would be more useful, but potentially more difficult (that's also valid, equivalent to x := "y + z").

Did you by chance start this project yesterday?

[drifter]

Detecting more common mistakes like x = y + z would be more useful, but potentially more difficult (that's also valid, equivalent to x := "y + z").

Currently, this type of error can only be detected by syntax highlighting.

[jaco0646]

I can see the advantage of such a noob friendly syntax warning styled editor like this...

+1
If the features are easily customizable, I will definitely give it a try.

[Rapte_Of_Suzaku]

I'll give it a try. It looks very promising. I've been looking for a good AHK IDE for a long time, but nothing I've tried so far has been worth using. An editor designed specifically for AutoHotkey seems like it has a better chance of satisfying me!

[IsNull]

Tooltips are shown for all command and functions, including user functions, functions contained in include files, and functions in the AutoHotkey Library.

That's amazing, and will help keep the overview in big projects.

Btw, is the IDE written in C#?

[drifter]

+1
If the features are easily customizable, I will definitely give it a try.

What types of customizations do you expect in an editor?

[Rapte_Of_Suzaku]

(though I'm not the one who brought it up...)

The ability to control tab behavior would be a plus (setting tab width, tweaking the behavior of an auto-indent feature, automatically converting tabs to spaces (I'd disable that last one myself, as it bugs me!!)).

Word-wrap behavior should be controlled by a user setting. Even more cool if you let users specify an arbitrary width at which to wrap.

Something like Notepad++'s "Style Configurator". It lets you change the colors and fonts for just about anything (background color, default font, brace highlighting, caret color, commented line color, keyword color, inactive tab color...).

Some people might want to be able to turn off the line numbers. I'd like to see them zero-padded.

The ability to change hotkeys would be nice, but... we all use AHK... so workarounds are clearly available!



That's all that comes to mind right now. However, I'm not too concerned about the customizability of your IDE. While extensive customizability is a requirement of any text editor I use, the main draw of your IDE is its functionality.

[jaco0646]

Something like Notepad++'s "Style Configurator". It lets you change the colors and fonts for just about anything (background color, default font, brace highlighting, caret color, commented line color, keyword color, inactive tab color...).

This is basically what I was thinking. I don't like an editor to assume that I want to use any special features. I like to be able to turn everything off, leaving only the basic Notepad functionality, and then selectively enable the features I want.

Colors are very important to me. Syntax highlighting is nice, but turning my code into a rainbow is just distracting. I need to be able to set the colors individually for comments, commands, directives, built-in variables, etc.

[Tyrsius]

I would absolutely use this. I have not found any editors that properly highlight syntax in all instances, and syntax error detection is always useful.

It does look like its written with Visual Studio though, not AHK (someone asked about this).

[ruespe]

Looks cool. Some features I haven't seen before. So I would give it a try.