AutoHotkey – a must for automation
I’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.
