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How to Neutralize Errant Hotstrings (AutoHotkey Trick)

How to Neutralize Errant Hotstrings (AutoHotkey Trick)

Take Advantage of Hotstring Precedence to Deactivate Unwanted Hotstrings Firing Sometimes AutoHotkey Hotstrings fire at the wrong time. For example, whenever I put the word AutoHotkey into a document I prefer the full word rather than an abbreviation (AHK). I use “ahk” as the Hotstring—replacing it with “AutoHotkey” in almost all cases. However, when I started adding the same extension to my…

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AutoHotkey Quick Tip: Conditional Hotstrings Using the Input Command

AutoHotkey Quick Tip: Conditional Hotstrings Using the Input Command

Sometimes the Input Command Solves a Sticky Hotstring Problem

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I promised an associative array tutorial for my next blog, but this topic intervened. I should have the tutorial ready for next Monday.

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Recent comment on my blog “Auto-Capitalize the First Letter of Sentences“:

This routine can be handy, though the main issue is that, in AHK,…

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AutoHotkey Tip of the Week: Repeat Words and Phrases with RegEx Hotstrings

Save Time with This RegEx Hotstring for Inserting Repeated Words or Sentences—”Blah!” Instantly Turns Into  “Blah! Blah! Blah!”

At the end of my last blog, I postulated the possibility of a word duplicating RegEx Hotstring. While I don’t know how many people would ever use it, I do remember a timewhen the technique would have come in handy (as shown in the cartoon on the left). I thought that I…

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AutoHotkey Tip of the Week: Auto-Capitalize the First Letter of Sentences

AutoHotkey Tip of the Week: Auto-Capitalize the First Letter of Sentences

Some People Don’t Find It Easy to Shift to Uppercase While Capitalizing Words—AutoHotkey Allows Us to Stop Reaching for the Shift Key—at Least for New Sentences!

I received the following question from a reader:

Hello,

Is there a script to auto-capitalize the first word of a sentence. Or after a period?

Thanks.

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Not everyone received an A in typing class—I didn’t. Plus,…

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New Parameters for the HotstringMenu() Function Adds Flexibility and Power to Pop-up Menus In my last blog, I started looking at adding the variadic parameter (accepts multiple inputs) and a Menu s…

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What To Do When You Don’t Know How Many Values You Will Use? For Hotstring Menus, the Variadic Function Parameter Allows a Variable Number of Arguments or Direct Array Input Variadic Function…

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