What is the best editor for AutoHotkey?

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Kjensen picture Kjensen · Aug 6, 2009 · Viewed 40k times · Source

What is the best editor for Autohotkey with regards to syntax hightlighting, command completion (intellisense), testing etc.

I am doing a bit of Autohotkey programming, and being spoiled rotten by Visual Studio, I really miss these features - especially being new to the language/framework.

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Zenjin picture Zenjin · Mar 28, 2010

The best editor to get started with would be SciTE4AutoHotkey

http://fincs.ahk4.net/scite4ahk/ enter image description here

SciTE4AutoHotkey is a lightweight and easy to use SciTE-based AutoHotkey script editor. It provides:

Syntax highlighting
Calltips (also known as IntelliSense)
AutoComplete
AutoIndent
AutoHotkey help integration
Abbreviations
Editing macros
Interactive debugging
Tools for AutoHotkey scripting
Powerful extension mechanisms

To search for different types of scripts that you could use...

Go to the Sticky: Catalogue of scripts and Rosetta Code challenges at the Scripts & Functions section of the AutoHotkey forum.

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