language-autohotkey

Syntax highlighting for AutoHotKey scripts.
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AutoHotKey support for Atom

This package adds basic syntax highlighting support for .ahk files in Atom.

Screenshot of a New AutoHotKey Script

Screenshot taken of "New AutoHotKey Script.ahk" included in the project.

Props to Dayle Rees and his beautifully designed Revalation theme: daylerees/colour-schemes

Features

Syntax highlighting support for the following match types:

  • Quoted strings
  • Percent sign enclosed strings
  • Comment lines
  • Numbers
  • Directives
  • Built-in system variables
  • Named key constants
  • Function declarations
  • Commonly used hotkey modifiers and symbols () English

Planned Features

These are features that I soon hope to implement and/or improve upon in future updates:

  • Snippets for all system variables and functions
  • General improvements to the regular expression formulas used for syntax matching
  • Code folding support
  • File system commands for reloading/pausing/compiling AHK scripts.

About

I'm not entirely sure why I find AutoHotKey to be so extremely satisfying but you can understand my frustration at having a lack of support for my favorite new text editor. So I figured, why not make it myself! So I learned some stuff about Atom, improved my RegEx skills and created my first project that can actually be used by everyone.

This is my first real experience in building a plugin for an application and I'm really excited to be making this available to others who can benefit from it as I do.

Thank you to everyone who installs and enjoys using this package. Hope you love it!!!