If you frequently use tools like Notepad, Notepad++, Textpad, etc. I highly recommend you give the SciTE editor a try! Here is a great video demonstrating it’s powerful features and how it can save you a ton of time! It is highly customizable (but there is a learning curve to making the tweaks to your user settings. I love it because I have the property files (which provide IntelliSense & syntax highlighting for ~80 languages)
The editor is free and can be downloaded from here. If you’re using AutoHotKey you can get SciTE4AutoHotkey built by fincs here.
One of my favorite things about SciTE is that it is highly customizable! If you have favorite commands you frequently use it is really easy to add them to Customize your SciTE context menu.
SciTE is a wonderful & powerful editor! I love using it for AutoHotKey, Python, HTML, SPSS, SQL, XML, and more! Below are SciTE Keyboard Shortcuts & Hotkeys to use with SciTE . I’ve bolded a few of the ones that I use very frequently. You also may like to check out the documentation. I have custom SciTE Hotkeys that I’ve added however they require updating files like the user.properties file which review in a this post.
You can download a printable version here. In the zip file you’ll find an Excel file which you can easily manipulate to your liking or just use the PDF versions.
SciTE Keyboard Shortcuts & Hotkeys
Ctrl+Keypad+
Magnify text size.
Ctrl+Keypad-
Reduce text size.
Ctrl+Keypad/
Restore text size to normal.
Ctrl+Tab
Cycle through recent files.
Tab
Indent block.
Shift+Tab
Dedent block.
Ctrl+BackSpace
Delete to start of word.
Ctrl+Delete
Delete to end of word.
Ctrl+Shift+BackSpace
Delete to start of line.
Ctrl+Shift+Delete
Delete to end of line.
Ctrl+Home
Go to start of document.
Ctrl+Shift+Home
Extend selection to start of document.
Alt+Home
Go to start of display line.
Ctrl+End
Go to end of document.
Ctrl+Shift+End
Extend selection to end of document.
Alt+End
Go to end of display line.
Ctrl+Keypad*
Expand or contract a fold point.
Alt+F2
Select to next bookmark.
Alt+Shift+F2
Select to previous bookmark.
Ctrl+F3
Find selection.
Ctrl+Shift+F3
Find selection backwards.
Ctrl+Up
Scroll up.
Ctrl+Down
Scroll down.
Ctrl+L
Line cut.
Ctrl+Shift+T
Line copy.
Ctrl+Shift+L
Line delete.
Ctrl+T
Line transpose with previous.
Ctrl+D
Selection duplicate. (Great to use in SciTE editor)
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