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As someone who recently dove back into AHK, I must say v2 has been fantastic!

So many great quality of life improvements and overall the documentation is top notch. I cobbled together a launcher app and modal-hotkey system from scratch in a couple of afternoons of enjoyable work.

If you're looking to try stuff out, having an autoreload function is a very nice addition to your script while developing.

A very pragmatic and productive experience.



Honestly I love the AHK documentation.

Some of the scripts I use daily are in Python, and some are in AHK. The AHK documentation is much easier to follow than the Python documentation IMO.


I came here to comment the exact same thing. AHK documentation is by far the easiest to navigate and u derstand of any language I've learned to date.


Is the modal hotkey system public code?


Uhh it’s a bit hacky at the moment but I can clean it up a but and release what I got.

Really it isn’t much more than an abuse of the Hotkey function and (effectively) function pointers.

I’ll put it up this evening though if people want to peep at it.

[Edit] In case people miss the other reply it's here: https://github.com/url00/ModalAHK


Here's a modal remap I've been using for the past few years. It's a bit rough around the edges, but should work reasonably well: https://github.com/MatejKafka/KeyboardRemap


Here's what I got. It's still pretty thrown together but hopefully it's helpful for ideas at least: https://github.com/url00/ModalAHK




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