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Will do; thanks, Stan!

"Stan Brown" wrote:

> Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:19:02 -0800 from Paige
> <Paige.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com>:
> > I have Windows XP Professional. Is it possible to assign a shortcut key, or
> > create a custom icon, that when activated, will enter a text string into
> > wherever my cursor is? I'm tired of re-entering my company's user ID in
> > Lotus Notes, IE, etc., and was wondering if there is a way to automate this.
> > Thanks for any help.
>
> I wouldn't know about an icon, but I heartily recommend Autohotkey at
> www.autohotkey.com . It's a free program, but better than anything in
> that category that I have ever seen.
>
> --
> Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
> http://OakRoadSystems.com/
> "If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's
> been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/
>

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 06:13:52 -0500, Stan Brown
<the_stan_brown.DeleteThis@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:19:02 -0800 from Paige
> <Paige.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com>:
> > I have Windows XP Professional. Is it possible to assign a shortcut key, or
> > create a custom icon, that when activated, will enter a text string into
> > wherever my cursor is? I'm tired of re-entering my company's user ID in
> > Lotus Notes, IE, etc., and was wondering if there is a way to automate this.
> > Thanks for any help.
>
> I wouldn't know about an icon, but I heartily recommend Autohotkey at
> www.autohotkey.com . It's a free program, but better than anything in
> that category that I have ever seen.


I've started using autohotkey just recently. I also like it a lot, and
second your recommendation.

What I like most about it is that there are a number of typos I tend
to make over and over--for example I type "aslo" instead of "also."
But I have autohotkey correct these for me automatically. Yes, there
are word processors that can do similar things, but autohotkey works
in all programs.


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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:53:18 -0700 from Ken Blake, MVP
<kblake RemoveThis @this.is.an.invalid.domain>:
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 06:13:52 -0500, Stan Brown
> <the_stan_brown RemoveThis @fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> > I heartily recommend Autohotkey at
> > www.autohotkey.com . It's a free program, but better than anything in
> > that category that I have ever seen.
>
> I've started using autohotkey just recently. I also like it a lot, and
> second your recommendation.
>
> What I like most about it is that there are a number of typos I tend
> to make over and over--for example I type "aslo" instead of "also."
> But I have autohotkey correct these for me automatically. Yes, there
> are word processors that can do similar things, but autohotkey works
> in all programs.

Agreed. That was a huge selling point to me -- no more need to set up
autocorrection individually in programs I use even individually on
multiple computers, since I just synch my Autohotkey files.

Here's my spelling.ahk file, in case it is useful to others. (The
second and third lines are en dash and em dash; I don't know if
they'll come across in Usenet.)


CapsLock::LShift
:*?:,-:
:*?:,_:
:*?:,12::½

::ae::are
::ahve::have
::alos::also
::alraedy::already
::anotehr::another
::ant::want
::anted::wanted
::ants::wants
::anyting::anything
;:ay::way
::ays::ways
::becase::because
:*:belive::believe
:C:ben::been
::betwen::between
:*:bok::book
:*:chech::check
::coudl::could
::coule::could
::eb::be
::ebcause::because
::eitehr::either
::fel::feel
::feling::feeling
::fels::feels
::firt::first
::firts::first
::functon::function
::functons::functions
:C:god::good
:*:halp::help
::hanks::thanks
::hapy::happy
::helo::hello
::hep::help
::heped::helped
::heps::helps
::hre::here
::insteda::instead
:*:isue::issue
::jujst::just
::jut::just
::kep::keep
::keping::keeping
::keps::keeps
::knoe::know
:*:liek::like
::lok::look
::loks::looks
::mroe::more
::nay::any
::ned::need
::neded::needed
::neds::needs
::noe::now
::numer::number
::numered::numbered
::numering::numbering
::numers::numbers
::ode::code
::odes::codes
:*:opearte::operate
::opearting::operating
::opeartion::operation
:t::not
:*:otehr::other
::pas::pass
*:phoen::phone
::plase::please
::pleae::please
::pleas::please
::plesae::please
::rember::remember
::rembered::remembered
::rembers::remembers
::rememer::remember
::rememered::remembered
::rememers::remembers
::replacd::replaced
::replacs::replaces
:*:scren::screen
::se::see
:C:sem::seem
:C:Sem::Seem
::sems::seems
::sen::seen
::ses::sees
::shoudl::should
::shoule::should
::singe::since
::smae::same
::someting::something
::softare::software
::sory::sorry
::strat::start
::strated::started
::strating::starting
::strats::starts
::tabe::tabs
::tage::tags
::tahn::than
::taht::that
::tank::thank
::tanks::thanks
::tahnks::thanks
::tat::that
::te::the
::teh::the
::tehir::their
::tehm::them
::tehn::then
::tehre::there
::tehy::they
:*:textbok::textbook
::tey::they
::thatg::that
::thet::that
::thge::the
:*:tiem::time
::ting::thing
::tings::things
::tink::think
::tinking::thinking
::tinks::thinks
::tis::this
::trhe::the
:*:trhink::think
::ue::use
::uer::user
::uers::users
::umber::number
::umbers::numbers
:*:upadte::update
::ust::just
:*?:verson::version
::wat::what
:*:wek::week
::whetehr::whether
::whta::what
::wither::either
:*:workshet::worksheet
::woule::would
::woudl::would





--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's
been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:07:06 -0500, Stan Brown
<the_stan_brown.TakeThisOut@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:53:18 -0700 from Ken Blake, MVP
> <kblake.TakeThisOut@this.is.an.invalid.domain>:
> > On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 06:13:52 -0500, Stan Brown
> > <the_stan_brown.TakeThisOut@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> >
> > > I heartily recommend Autohotkey at
> > > www.autohotkey.com . It's a free program, but better than anything in
> > > that category that I have ever seen.
> >
> > I've started using autohotkey just recently. I also like it a lot, and
> > second your recommendation.
> >
> > What I like most about it is that there are a number of typos I tend
> > to make over and over--for example I type "aslo" instead of "also."
> > But I have autohotkey correct these for me automatically. Yes, there
> > are word processors that can do similar things, but autohotkey works
> > in all programs.
>
> Agreed. That was a huge selling point to me -- no more need to set up
> autocorrection individually in programs I use even individually on
> multiple computers, since I just synch my Autohotkey files.
>
> Here's my spelling.ahk file, in case it is useful to others. (The
> second and third lines are en dash and em dash; I don't know if
> they'll come across in Usenet.)


You make a lot of the same typos I do!

Thanks very much. Since I'm new to autohotkey, my list is much smaller
than yours. I'm going to copy a bunch of these.


--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:59:12 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
<kblake DeleteThis @this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:07:06 -0500, Stan Brown
> <the_stan_brown DeleteThis @fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> > Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:53:18 -0700 from Ken Blake, MVP
> > <kblake DeleteThis @this.is.an.invalid.domain>:
> > > On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 06:13:52 -0500, Stan Brown
> > > <the_stan_brown DeleteThis @fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I heartily recommend Autohotkey at
> > > > www.autohotkey.com . It's a free program, but better than anything in
> > > > that category that I have ever seen.
> > >
> > > I've started using autohotkey just recently. I also like it a lot, and
> > > second your recommendation.
> > >
> > > What I like most about it is that there are a number of typos I tend
> > > to make over and over--for example I type "aslo" instead of "also."
> > > But I have autohotkey correct these for me automatically. Yes, there
> > > are word processors that can do similar things, but autohotkey works
> > > in all programs.
> >
> > Agreed. That was a huge selling point to me -- no more need to set up
> > autocorrection individually in programs I use even individually on
> > multiple computers, since I just synch my Autohotkey files.
> >
> > Here's my spelling.ahk file, in case it is useful to others. (The
> > second and third lines are en dash and em dash; I don't know if
> > they'll come across in Usenet.)
>
>
> You make a lot of the same typos I do!
>
> Thanks very much. Since I'm new to autohotkey, my list is much smaller
> than yours. I'm going to copy a bunch of these.


By the way, what does :*: mean? I'm not familiar with tat.


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On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 06:13:52 -0500, Stan Brown
<the_stan_brown DeleteThis @fastmail.fm> wrote:
> I heartily recommend Autohotkey at www.autohotkey.com . It's a free
> program, but better than anything in that category that I have ever
> seen.

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:53:18 -0700 from Ken Blake, MVP
<kblake DeleteThis @this.is.an.invalid.domain>:
> I've started using autohotkey just recently. I also like it a lot,
> and second your recommendation.

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:04:59 -0700 from Ken Blake, MVP
<kblake DeleteThis @this.is.an.invalid.domain>:
> By the way, what does :*: mean? I'm not familiar with tat.

I see we do indeed make many of the same typos.

:*: instead of :: means that the to-be-replaced string need not come
at the end of a word. Thus
:*:belive::believe
would match belive, belives, belived (not beliving) but
::hep::help
would match only hep, not heps or heping

Some of the ones without :*: were a considered decision to restrict
the matching; others are holdovers because I didn't know about :*:
when I started my list, and have just been modifying particular ones
as they occur to me.

The help file is really excellent, and the topic "Hotstrings & auto-
replace" (fifth from the top in the contents) covers the modifiers
like *, C, and ?.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's
been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 07:16:22 -0500, Stan Brown
<the_stan_brown DeleteThis @fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 06:13:52 -0500, Stan Brown
> <the_stan_brown DeleteThis @fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > I heartily recommend Autohotkey at www.autohotkey.com . It's a free
> > program, but better than anything in that category that I have ever
> > seen.
>
> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:53:18 -0700 from Ken Blake, MVP
> <kblake DeleteThis @this.is.an.invalid.domain>:
> > I've started using autohotkey just recently. I also like it a lot,
> > and second your recommendation.
>
> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:04:59 -0700 from Ken Blake, MVP
> <kblake DeleteThis @this.is.an.invalid.domain>:
> > By the way, what does :*: mean? I'm not familiar with tat.
>
> I see we do indeed make many of the same typos.


Tit for tat!


> :*: instead of :: means that the to-be-replaced string need not come
> at the end of a word. Thus
> :*:belive::believe
> would match belive, belives, belived (not beliving) but
> ::hep::help
> would match only hep, not heps or heping



Great, thanks again!

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