AutoHotkey Webinar 04/2021 Hour 1-Notepad++
In the first hour of the AutoHotkey Webinar Isaias Baez (RaptorX) walks us through how to install and configure Notepad++
You can get the scripts we used here: https://www.the-automator.com/autohot...
TLDR: The key idea of the video is that AutoHotkey is recommended as a powerful alternative to Notepad++ for coding, as it offers more customization options and features.
1. 00:00 🎙️ The speaker starts the AutoHotkey webinar with 99 sign-ups, explains the format, recommends a video on web scraping, and discusses a course on DOS and AutoHotkey.
1.1 The speaker begins the AutoHotkey webinar, expressing disappointment that there were only 99 sign-ups and explains the format of the webinar, encouraging participants to ask questions in the chat.
1.2 The speaker recommends watching a recent video on web scraping and API calls as it provides valuable information and background on the topic.
1.3 The speaker discusses a course on DOS and AutoHotkey, highlighting the functionality and usefulness of DOS and mentioning a script written in AutoHotkey.
2. 03:26 📝 AutoHotkey Webinar 04/2021 Hour 1-Notepad++: AutoHotkey offers a cursor highlighter, Notepad++ is an outdated text editor, AutoHotkey is recommended instead, and instructions for using Notepad++ are provided.
2.1 You can use a cursor highlighter in AutoHotkey to change the appearance of the cursor, such as its color and size, which can be helpful for highlighting things during webinars or Zoom calls.
2.2 Notepad++ was a popular text editor among AutoHotkey users, including the speaker and the audience, but they found other alternatives more useful in recent years.
2.3 Notepad++ is an old software that the speaker does not recommend, suggesting starting with AutoHotkey and then moving to Studio or VS Code for better usage, but the speaker will still show some cool features of Notepad++.
2.4 AutoHotkey is a simple yet powerful tool that allows users to perform various tasks, and it can be downloaded from the automator.com website along with configuration files and a helpful PDF guide.
2.5 Download the 32-bit version of Notepad++ instead of the 64-bit version to have access to more functionality and plugins.
2.6 Open the Notepad++ folder, move the XML files to the autocompletion folder, and import the user-defined language file manually.
3. 11:52 📝 Notepad++ is a powerful text editor with customizable user defined language, plugins for additional functionality, and features like line operations, hotkeys, and multiple cursors.
3.1 Import the user defined language file for AutoHotkey in Notepad++ by selecting the language option, importing the downloaded file, saving it, and then accessing it from the language menu.
3.2 You can modify the user defined language in Notepad++ to add keywords and change how comments work, but make sure to use the Windows file ending instead of the Unix file ending for the folding options to work properly.
3.3 Notepad++ comes with pre-configured options like converting hexadecimal to ASCII, but additional functionality can be added through plugins, such as the text effects plugin.
3.4 Notepad++ is a powerful text editor with additional functionality through plugins, including autosave, a hex editor, and indent by fold, and after selecting and installing the desired plugins, the setup is complete and coding can begin.
4. 22:54 📝 Notepad++ allows you to highlight and perform actions on specific lines of code, record and run macros, and specify the program to run, while AutoHotkey enables customization of the run command and resolving include problems by specifying the current full path
5. 29:22 📝 You can customize hotkeys, modify the context menu, add commands, change the theme, and customize language colors in Notepad++, but you can't change the default new file template
6. 34:57 🔍 The speaker discusses the clunky interface of the autohotkey debugger and the lack of specific hotkeys for AutoHotkey in Notepad++, recommending alternative programs for coding with AutoHotkey
7. 43:14 📝 The speaker mentions that the product is ready to use without any additional setup, but some people have reported problems with the autocomplete feature in Notepad++ and it is unclear if there is a way to disable it
8. 49:30 📝 The speaker discusses new features in Notepad++ like hot key store and text effects, mentions the machine braces function, and highlights the ability to easily add words or phrases to multiple lines using AutoHotkey's Notepad++; Notepad++ is a powerful text editor with options for visibility, remote file editing, and portable versions for easy access, but lacks a command search feature; Modern editors like Notepad++ and Visual Studio Code offer cloud storage for personalized configurations and hotkeys.