Best AutoHotKey macros? [closed]

Answer 1

Add surrounding quotes on selected text/word
Useful when writing emails or during coding...

Doubleclick word, hit Win+X, have quotes around

; Win + X
#x:: ; Attention:  Strips formatting from the clipboard too!
Send ^c
clipboard = "%clipboard%"
; Remove space introduced by WORD
StringReplace, clipboard, clipboard,%A_SPACE%",", All
Send ^v
return

Answer 2

Here's a dead-simple snippet to quickly close the current window using a mouse button.

It's one of the actions you perform most often in Windows, and you'll be surprised at how much time you save by no longer having to shoot for that little X. With a 5-button mouse, I find this a very useful reassignment of the "Forward" button.

#IfWinActive  ;Close active window when mouse button 5 is pressed
  XButton2::
    SendInput {Alt Down}{F4}{Alt Up}
    Return
#IfWinActive  

To take into account programs that use tabbed documents (like web browsers), here's a more comprehensive version:

;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Bind Mouse Button 5 to Close Tab / Close Window command
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

; Create a group to hold windows which will use Ctrl+F4 instead of Alt+F4
GroupAdd, CtrlCloseGroup, ahk_class IEFrame             ; Internet Explorer
GroupAdd, CtrlCloseGroup, ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_0  ; Google Chrome
; (Add more programs that use tabbed documents here)
Return

; For windows in above group, bind mouse button to Ctrl+F4
#IfWinActive, ahk_group CtrlCloseGroup
  XButton2::
    SendInput {Ctrl Down}{F4}{Ctrl Up}
    Return
#IfWinActive  

; For everything else, bind mouse button to Alt+F4
#IfWinActive
  XButton2::
    SendInput {Alt Down}{F4}{Alt Up}
    Return
#IfWinActive  

; In FireFox, bind to Ctrl+W instead, so that the close command also works
; on the Downloads window.
#IfWinActive, ahk_class MozillaUIWindowClass
  XButton2::
    SendInput {Ctrl Down}w{Ctrl Up}
    Return
#IfWinActive

Visual Studio 2010 can't easily be added to the CtrlCloseGroup above, as it's window class / title aren't easily predictable (I think). Here's the snippet I use to handle it, including a couple additional helpful bindings:

SetTitleMatchMode, 2  ; Move this line to the top of your script

;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Visual Studio 2010
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

#IfWinActive, Microsoft Visual Studio

  ; Make the middle mouse button jump to the definition of any token
  MButton::
    Click Left  ; put the cursor where you clicked
    Send {Shift Down}{F2}{Shift Up}
    Return

  ; Make the Back button on the mouse jump you back to the previous area
  ; of code you were working on.
  XButton1::
    Send {Ctrl Down}{Shift Down}{F2}{Shift Up}{Ctrl Up}
    Return

  ; Bind the Forward button to close the current tab
  XButton2::
    SendInput {Ctrl Down}{F4}{Ctrl Up}
    Return

#IfWinActive

I also find it useful in Outlook to map ALT+1, ALT+2, etc. to macros I wrote which move the currently selected message(s) to specific folders (eg. "Personal Filed", "Work Filed", etc) but that's a bit more complicated.

Answer 3

There are tons of good ones in the AutoHotKey Forum:

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/forum-2.html&sid=8149586e9d533532ea76e71e8c9e5b7b

How good? really depends on what you want/need.