In this post I leverage two different scripts where I demonstrate how to personalize SciTE Intellisense / Autocorrect. Both are great ways 
to increase your productivity while coding!
Personalize SciTE Intellisense by Adding Functions, Labels and variables
This script can be used to point to specific files/folders and grab labels, functions, etc. and pull them into your Intellisense for you. This script will generate a “user.ahk.api” file in your default SciTE library and only needs to be run periodically (when you have new functions/labels you want to include).
- Save BuildUserAhkApi.ahk to a location on your computer (if you save it in your local \lib\folder you will not need to #include it!)
- From a separate file, call the function and tell it what file(s) /directory you want it to review and what you want it to include (functions and/or labels). You can also decide to be recursive or not. I had it import all of my functions from my standard AutoHotkey\lib\ folder but did not include my labels (as they’re really only relevant for an active script).
- Here is the function and parameters (the last one should not be used): BuildUserAhkApi(AhkScriptPath, [OverwriteAhkApi, RecurseIncludes, Labels, WrapWidth, AhkApiPath, RecursionCall])
- Here is how I called mine (note you’ll need to dupate the destination path:
BuildUserAhkApi("B:\Progs\AutoHotkey_L\Lib\", 0, 0, 0, 265, "C:\Scite_Install\SciTE_Custom\user.ahk.api")Video walk through how to Personalize SciTE Intellisense :
Adding Functions, Labels, Variables from your current file to your SciTE Intellisense / Autocorrect
In this second example I demonstrate how you can have variables, labels, functions in your current script populate the SciTE Intellisense / Autocorrect. If you’re like me, you’ll LOVE this functionality because it will help prompt you of the variables, functions, labels you have in the current saved script. This can drastically increase your productivity!
- Save AutoComplete.lua to SciTE default directory ;(See attached or download here)
- Save UserLuaScript.lua to SciTE default directory (append if you have something there already –I had this file but it does not show up under Option)
- I’m beta testing this but right now it looks like it works fine- I added one line @ row 282 to my version . This tells SciTE to update all the time (not waiting for the document to be saved). So far it seems to work fine but I’m going to give it a bit before recommending…
local events = {
OnChar = handleChar,
OnKey = handleKey,
OnSave = buildNames,
OnUpdateUI = buildNames, --I added this line @ line 282
OnSwitchFile = function()
