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Webinar- SciTE4AutoHotkey is an amazing editor!

SciTE4AutoHotKey

In this AutoHotkey Webinar we cover using/customizing  SciTE4AutoHotkey by FincsSciTE webinar

Video Hour 1: High-level overview:

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

Demonstration of cool SciTE4AutoHotkey features

  1. Multi-line typing
  2. Dynamic Intellisense
  3. Move text up/down
  4. Comment / Un-comment
  5. Change applied Intellisense language
  6. Copy / Paste as RTF
  7. Custom Context Menu
  8. Search / Replace – with RegEx
  9. List of Extensions to “open”
  10. Highlight multiple instances of each word
  11. Change color of highlighting for found word
  12. Custom Status bar
  13. Configure hotkeys (w/o AutoHotkey)
  14. Custom your Status bar
  15. Setting default magnification level
  16. Import additional languages (here are an additional ~70 languages)
  17. Leverage the Output area as a GUI
  18. Customizing your context menu
  19. Running multiple instances of SciTE
  20. Debug your scripts
  21. Run selected text

Scripts / External Resources

  1. Main thread on SciTE4AutoHotkey
  2. 16 videos @ the-Automator on using / customizing SciTE
  3. 42 of built-in Hotkeys
  4. My SciTE User.properties file (backup yours before playing with it!)
  5. Adding Intellisense for an additional ~70 languages
  6. Scintilla / SciTE Documentation, Interface, Menu /Key commands
  7. UserGroup plus StackOverflow
  8. Second SciTE window by boiler (launch script, then do new window)
  9. Tweaking Intellisense to use your file / library from XeroByte
  10. Have Intellisense examine current file from lexikos

Video Hour 2: Discussion and Q&A

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How to Customize SciTE Status bar: Create your own to your liking with this simple hack

scite status barHere I show you how to customize SciTE status bar.  This  is a great, easy, way to add more relevant information to your needs.

In the below video I walk through how you can make minor tweaks to your status bar by editing your user.properties file.  Further down the page I’ve provided some of the built-in variables however there are a ton of additional ones you can check out the defined variables here.

Here is the syntax I walked through in the below video.  The first SciTE statusbar.text.1 that is commented out is one I use by default.

SciTE4AutoHotkey Status Bar customization video

Built-in variables for SciTE status bar

Variable NameMeaning
FilePathfull path of the current file
FileDirdirectory of the current file without a trailing slash
FileNamebase name of the current file
FileExtextension of the current file
FileNameExt$(FileName).$(FileExt)
Languagename of the lexer used for the current file
SessionPathfull path of the current session
CurrentSelectionvalue of the currently selected text
CurrentWordvalue of word which the caret is within or near
Replacementsnumber of replacements made by last Replace command
SelectionStartColumncolumn where selection starts
SelectionStartLineline where selection starts
SelectionEndColumncolumn where selection ends
SelectionEndLineline where selection ends
CurrentMessagemost recently selected output pane message
SciteDefaultHomedirectory in which the Global Options file is found
SciteUserHomedirectory in which the User Options file is found
SciteDirectoryHomedirectory in which the Directory Options file is found
APIPathlist of full paths of API files from api.filepattern
AbbrevPathfull path of abbreviations file
ScaleFactorthe screen’s scaling factor with a default value of 100