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SciTE Output paneWhile I predominately view text with Message boxes in AutoHotkey, sometimes they are not the right tool for the job.  I wrote a short function to automate sending text to the SciTE Output pane.

SciTE is a great editor however the Output pane is greatly underutilized.  Below is the function I wrote to manipulate it.  You can download the SciTE Output Function here

Short video walking through how to send text to the SciTE Output Pane

 

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How to use SciTE messages

How to use SciTE messages

SciTE is a great IDE that I use with AutoHotKey, SPSS, SQL, Python, XML, HTML, etc.   I love being able to use regular expressions in it to manipulate text and it has some very cool capabilities.  This video is one of my favorite demonstrations how powerful SciTE can be at manipulating text.

Here is a short tutorial and demonstration on how to manipulate SciTE editor via COM objects and Windows commands with AutoHotKey.

Tutorial How to use SciTE messages with AutoHotkey

How to customize SciTE

See the list of SciTE commands here

Take a deep-dive into Scintilla documentation

Look at the Director Interface options

To send messages in AutoHotkey review MSDN

FYI- 0x111 is the WM_COMMAND

SciTE Messages for use in AutoHotkey with a COM object

You can use spy to find wm_command

A specific version of the SciTE editor for AutoHotKey can be downloaded here and more generic documentation can be found here.