If you found this article useful, check out my 5-star ebook Practical AutoHotkey: How to get faster at work with text expansion and automation (Amazon Kindle). If you want AutoHotkey to expand text no matter what, then you should define your abbreviation this way (use a question mark AND an asterisk): :?*:always::Always expand this hotstring, even if I'm in the middle of a word OR if I don't type an endchar just always expand this text whenever you see it. the word 'explain', which would become really long. If you want AutoHotkey to expand text even if that text occurs as part of a word then you should use define your abbreviations as follows (add a question mark between the first set of colons): :?:lain::Expand me even in the middle of a word that contains the text 'lain' eg. The form is a colon, followed by an asterisk, followed by a colon, followed by the abbreviation you want to use, followed by two colons, followed by the text you want the abbreviation to expand into. This is the same form we used above – with the exception of an asterisk between the first set of colons. However, you can have AutoHotkey expand your text as soon as the text you’re typing matches a defined abbreviation (your ‘hotstring’), if you’re not in the middle of a word: :*:rightnow::Expand this text RIGHT AWAY please, AutoHotkey. Advanced Expansionīy default, AutoHotkey does not expand text right away (in case your hotstring happens to be part of a word) and waits until you type an ending character (such as a space, a right paren, or press the Enter key, etc.). However, sometimes you want AutoHotkey to expand text right away, as soon as you type an expansion trigger (a ‘hotstring’ in AutoHotkey parlance). When you use this form of abbreviation AutoHotkey expects you to type an ending character to indicate that you have completed typing and that, yes, you finished typing an abbreviation that you expect AutoHotkey to expand. In real life I'd use something like tahke for Tortured AutoHotKey Example. The basic form of text expansion with AutoHotKey is two colons, followed by the abbreviation you want to use, followed by two more colons, followed by the text you want to replace the abbreviation with: ::abbreviationlt::Here is some really long text that will appear whenever I type 'abbreviationlt'. AutoHotkey Text Expansion Reference Basic Text Expansion Have boilerplate that you always need to put in a report or e-mail? Let AutoHotkey type that paragraph in for you.
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