!w::
Sendinput ^c ; copy selection
Sleep 1000 ; gives time for the copy to work
FileAppend, `n`n%clipboard%, C:\Users\John Salter\ToAnki.txt; Add clipboard content to the end of a text file. Insert 2 new lines before inserting the clipboard with `n`n
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This is the script I've been trying to use. I was concerned about the space in between "John" and "Salter" so tried it in other locations but it still doesn't work.
I get no error messages.
The content of the the clipboard is altered, so the problem lies beneath the second line.
The use of FileAppend would seem to work looking at the help documentation.
Can anybody figure out what's going wrong?
Thanks!
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FileAppend, `n`n%clipboard%, C:\Users\John Salter\ToAnki.txt ; Add clipboard content to the end of a text file. Insert 2 new lines before inserting the clipboard with `n`n
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I need Autohotkey (AHK) to insert text, enclosed within brackets, into my text files. However, my AHK code results in erroneous text input depending on using the code on text files opened in Notepad3 or opened in Emacs. My use of brackets are obviously wrong relative to the AHK syntax.
My minimum working example:
::ttt::
; define variables
myString = abcdf
myFile = C:\Users\myUser\notes\myFile.tex
; write variables into current file
SendInput, <<%myString%>> {enter}
SendInput, [[%myFile%]]
return
The results I need should look like this:
<< abcde>>
[[C:\Users\myUser\notes\myFile.tex]]
Emacs When using this script on a text file opened with Emacs, the result looks like this:
<< abcde>>
[[C:\Users\myUser\notes\myFile.tex]]]
The first line written the way I need it, while the second line has got an extra "]" added in the end.
Notepad3 When using this script on a text file opened with Notepad3, the result looks like this:
<< abcde>>
[[C:\Users\myUser\notes\myFile.tex]]< /abcde>
The first line is written the way I need it, while the second line has got a variant of the first line added in the end, though with an "/" added.
How can I modify my code so the text input will look correct both in Notpad3 and in Emacs?
Is the space in << abcde>> necessary? The definition of your variable doesn't seem to reflect that.
Nonetheless, the issue likely stems from the fact that these keys are being inputted instead of sending the text directly. I find that it's usually best to send strings as text if you wish to avoid other hotkeys from potentially disturbing your output. Try this adjustment:
SendInput {text}<< %myString%>>
SendInput {enter}
SendInput {text}[[%myFile%]]
Using an AutoHotkey script I'd like to set the keyboard command Ctrl+D to delete the current line in any active Windows app.
How?
^d::Send {Home}{ShiftDown}{End}{Right}{ShiftUp}{Del}
Might not work in all edge cases, but passes some very basic testing in Notepad. =~)
HaveSpacesuit's answer works but after using it for a while I realized it deletes the active line and sometimes re-positions the spacing of the line below.
This led me to rethink his solution. Instead of going from the front of the line to the back, I tried going from back to front. This solved the re-positioning issue.
SendInput {End}
SendInput +{Home}
SendInput ^+{Left}
SendInput {Delete}
There is still a small problem though. If the cursor is on an empty line, with more empty lines above, then all empty lines get deleted.
I don't know a key combo to replace ^+{Left} that doesn't have this behavior so I had to write a more comprehensive solution.
^d:: DeleteCurrentLine()
DeleteCurrentLine() {
SendInput {End}
SendInput +{Home}
If get_SelectedText() = "" {
; On an empty line.
SendInput {Delete}
} Else {
SendInput ^+{Left}
SendInput {Delete}
}
}
get_SelectedText() {
; See if selection can be captured without using the clipboard.
WinActive("A")
ControlGetFocus ctrl
ControlGet selectedText, Selected,, %ctrl%
;If not, use the clipboard as a fallback.
If (selectedText = "") {
originalClipboard := ClipboardAll ; Store current clipboard.
Clipboard := ""
SendInput ^c
ClipWait .2
selectedText := ClipBoard
ClipBoard := originalClipboard
}
Return selectedText
}
As far as I can tell this produces no unexpected behaviour.
However, be careful if you're using a clipboard manager as this script uses the clipboard, if necessary, as an intermediary to get the selected text. This will impact clipboard manager history.
In case you run into problems where you need different behaviours for different programs, you can "duplicate" your ^d command for specific programs like this:
SetTitleMatchMode, 2 ; Makes the #IfWinActive name searching flexible
^d::Send {Home}{ShiftDown}{End}{Right}{ShiftUp}{Del} ; Generic response to ^d.
#IfWinActive, Gmail ; Gmail specific response
^d::Send {Home}{ShiftDown}{End}{Right}{ShiftUp}{Del} ; adapt this line for gmail
#IfWinActive ; End of Gmail's specific response to ^d
#IfWinActive, Excel ; Excel specific response.
^d::Send {Home}{ShiftDown}{End}{Right}{ShiftUp}{Del} ; adapt this line for Excel
#IfWinActive ; End of Excel's specific response to ^d
This way your ^d command will work differently in Excel and Gmail.
I have a simple way to solve the repositioning issue. Without using the clipboard.
The repositioning issue is due to the need to handle 2 separate cases.
if there's existing text in a line,
we want to select them all, and delete the text (backspace 1)
and backspace one more time to delete the empty line (backspace 2)
if it's a blank line,
we want to delete the empty line (backspace 1)
To cater for both of above cases, I introduced a dummy character.
This will make sure BOTH cases will act the same way.
So doing backspace 2 times, will result in the same transformation each time.
Simply,
; enable delete line shortcut
^d::
Send {Home}
Send {Shift Down}{End}{Shift Up}
Send d
Send {Backspace 2}
Send {down}
return
Disadvantage with this approach,
the dummy character "d" will appear when you undo. Not a bad tradeoff since I don't undo delete lines very often.
I want to write an Autohotkey text to edit the text that the user selects and append four spaces at the beginning of every line.
If I would simply have a string with multiple lines the task would be easy.
I googled and found one solution at the official Autohotkey forum. That solution copies the text into the clipboard potentially deleting the clipboard content.
Is there a way to do this in autohotkey that doesn't use the clipboard where I can directly operate on the selected text?
Here are some basic Clipboard techniques:
ClipSaved := ClipboardAll ; Save the entire clipboard to a variable of your choice (in this case, ClipSaved).
; Here is where you put your code
Clipboard := ClipSaved ; Restore the original clipboard.
ClipSaved = ; Free the memory in case the clipboard was very large.
More here: https://autohotkey.com/docs/misc/Clipboard.htm
Well, this one requires your mouse cursor to hover over the window with the selected text:
MouseGetPos,,,thiswindow,thiscontrol
ControlGet,VarX,selected,,%thiscontrol%,ahk_id %thiswindow%
;Do something with "VarX" here.
How can write a hotkey (which works in any editor) to wrap currently selected text in ``
e.g double click "text", it becomes selected, then by pressing key for single `` it
is converted to text
Here is mix of pseudo code and actual code. Text within <> is what I'm not sure of
^<COMMAND FOR PRESSING ` KEY>::
KeyWait Control
<STORE CURRENTLY SELECTED TEXT IN MEMORY>
SendInput `<STORED SELECTED TEXT>'
return
Your approach is pretty good already. Try this:
$`::
clp_tmp := ClipboardAll
send ^c
currently_selected := Clipboard
stringReplace, currently_selected, currently_selected, `r,, All
Clipboard := clp_tmp
sendraw ``%A_Space%
sendraw %currently_selected%
sendraw ``%A_Space%
return
$ is needed because otherwise, sendraw `` would re-trigger this hotkey. The built-in variable clipboard / clipboardAll contains windows' clipboard. Also, you don't need any keywaits. ahk manages concurring modifiers from hotkey triggers by itself. I also suggest using sendraw which will not treat # as the win-button, + as Shift and so on.
script inserts new lines between each line if multiple lines are selected
Weird. When using msgBox, %currently_selected% instead of any send command, the line breaks are displayed correctly... there is obviously some strange formatting going on, I fixed it by simply removing all Carriage Returns (CR) (`r) from the string which does not change the selected text at all.
The given solution works for my keyboard which is German. This might be different for other keyboard layouts. For me, the %A_Space% in sendraw ``%A_Space% (at least in the second one) is needed, because if you state sendraw `` (a literal space character in the end), AHK will ignore it. You could also put all three sends in one line like
sendraw `` %currently_selected%``%A_Space%
Another solution might be
sendInput ````{BS}%currently_selected%````{BS}
or just simply
sendRaw `%currently_selected%`
Finally: If you wanted to make everything easier, make use of the #EscapeChar command and change the delimiter from ` to \ or sth. similar.
Is there a way to select last N symbols with autohotkey?
I'm making a function which replicates Sublime Text's duplicate function (Ctrl+Shift+D). I want text to be selected before it is duplicated via SendInput ^C{right}^V
Technically, I could make something like:
selectBefore(n){
Loop, %n% {
SendInput +{Left}
}
}
But that has shown poor performance.
Another method would be to play with Shift+Home. For example, Send +{Home}, then count the number of symbols selected, then Send {Left} and Send +{Home} again, and so on until reaching the length of the duplicated string.
I don't see any better alternatives.
Is there a good, basic way to select N symbols before caret?
From what I read about ST2 (thank you for making me aware) is that ^+d either copies the selected text or if nothing is selected, copies the whole line.
Would this work?
TempCB = %ClipBoard% ; Park clipboard (text) content, Other content (format, images, etc.) will be lost.
ClipBoard = ; Clear clipboard
Send, ^c ; Grab selected text
Sleep, 100 ; Wait 0.1 seconds for clipboard (clipboard will not get filled if nothing is selected)
if (Clipboard = "") ; Nothing selected, thus copy whole line
{
Send, {Home}+{End}^c ; Select line and copy to clipbard
}
MoveBack := StrLen(ClipBoard)
MoveFwd := MoveBack
MoveBack++ ; Move one step back further back due to earlier step {right}
Send, {Right}{Left}^v{Right}{left %Moveback%}+{Right %MoveFwd%} ; Go to end of selected text (in MS notepad this is will jump over the first next char., thus a jump back as well), add a space and paste.
ClipBoard = %TempCB% ; Restore (text part) of previous clipboard content.
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I tested this in MS Notepad, other editors might behave differently (especially around jumping towards the end of the selected text).
The script now copies and pastes the selected text and highlights the newly pasted text.