AutoHotkey – a must for automation
Sunday, February 28th, 2010I’d just like to throw out the suggestion for anyone stuck in Windows world to look into AutoHotkey.
I’ve combined it with python to create some on-the-fly scripts that autopopulate test-plans at work.
But it’s the little things that make it useful immediately. I have a Lenovo ThinkPad at my job. Great little laptop, but the F1 key is where the escape key is on a regular keyboard.
This is a huge problem in vi; my muscle memory goes right to the location and hits “help” instead of changing modes almost constantly.
That’s where AutoHotkey comes in – I remap F1 to Escape when I’m in a gVim window.
I don’t even notice and if I really needed to, I can always :help
The other nice snippet is this one:
Copy/Paste
It flips copy/paste around – Ctrl + V now pastes sans formatting; if you want formatting you Ctrl + Shift + V
Unbelievably useful.
Haven’t updated in a while since I’m at a new job. Everything I’ve been building is too specific to share (trade secrets, business process-related) so I haven’t.
Hopefully I get some generic stuff in the future.
