praise & suggestions

Hello there,

only a few days ago, while searching for a good editor for AutoHotkey, I came across PSPad. And I must say it's really an amazing tool - much better than anything I've known so far!

However, nothing's ever perfect, so here's a small list of suggestions I came up with:
1) auto-display auto-completion (i.e. without having to press any key)
2) option to hide/collapse a function's body for easier navigation (kinda like you can collapse sub-structures if you open an XML file in your web browser)
3) hyperlinks to quickly get to a function's (or, for AutoHotkey, label's) definition
4) escape char support so "\//", for example, will not cause comment highlighting (assuming that "\" is the escape char and // initiates comments)
5) options/settings menu: use list boxes instead of three-way checkboxes? (that's of minor concern though)
6) It seems that only .CHM files can be assigned as external help/documentation - but what if the help comes in the form of an HTML site?

Comments would be appreciated!

UPDATE: I've noticed that even when using "real tabs", it sometimes happens that a number of spaces are inserted instead. I couldn't find out yet what triggers this though...

I used to use TextPad with AHK, but am allways looking for better. Now trying PSPad, I would like to know how to link a AHK-compiler to PSPad.

Jeex

There's a script for that: Go to
...\AutoHotkey\Extras\Editors\PSPad\
and run
Run this to install syntax and clip files for PSPad.ahk

HTH

btw: I guess I've found out why 'real tabs' are falsely converted to spaces sometimes; it seems to be tied to the undo function, though I'm not sure that's the only way to reproduce this problem.

Post Edited (01-09-2006 18:33)

> UPDATE: I've noticed that even when using "real tabs", it
> sometimes happens that a number of spaces are inserted instead.
> I couldn't find out yet what triggers this though...

Try turning off "Trim Trailing Spaces" (under Settings | Program Settings | Editor - Behaviour).

>> UPDATE: I've noticed that even when using "real tabs", it
>> sometimes happens that a number of spaces are inserted instead.
>> I couldn't find out yet what triggers this though...
>
> Try turning off "Trim Trailing Spaces" (under
> Settings | Program Settings | Editor -Behaviour).

Hey, that actually solved this problem. Thanks!
That's kinda of a catch-22 though, because now I run the risk of keeping trailing spaces...

PS: Sorry for not replying sooner; I wanted to update to PSPad to v4.5 first to see whether the problem was solved there.

Post Edited (01-25-2006 09:33)

If you use AutoHotKey you might want to have a look at AutoIt, which is the original scripting language in which AutoHotKey was based. It is much more powerful than AutoHotKey (you can even create GUI programs, which can be compiled, it can also create COM objects, has Regular Expression capabilities and more). It also has a nicer syntax!

Do some research and you'll find out that AutoHotKey actually "borrowed" most of its source code from an older version of AutoIt.

Check it at: [url]www.autoitscript.com[/url]

You will not regret giving it a try!

Cheers,

Angel