AutoHotkey - Programming language

AutoHotkey is an open source programming language created in 2003.

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AutoHotkey is a free, open-source custom scripting language for Microsoft Windows, initially aimed at providing easy keyboard shortcuts or hotkeys, fast macro-creation and software automation that allows users of most levels of computer skill to automate repetitive tasks in any Windows application. User interfaces can easily be extended or modified by AutoHotkey (for example, overriding the default Windows control key commands with their Emacs equivalents). The AutoHotkey installation includes its own extensive help file with an always updated web-based version.. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language
There are at least 14,623 AutoHotkey repos on GitHub
Early development of AutoHotkey happened in AutoHotkey Foundation LLC
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 1k users using AutoHotkey in 1k repos on GitHub
There are 28 Project Euler users using AutoHotkey
Explore AutoHotkey snippets on Rosetta Code
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for AutoHotkey
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for AutoHotkey
autohotkey.com was registered in 2003
See also: (12 related languages) Emacs, C, Microsoft Excel, AutoIt, Visual Basic .NET, C#, Lua, Lisp, VBScript, JScript, KiXtart, Winbatch
4 PLDB concepts link to AutoHotkey: Ace Editor, BQN, DRAKON, Pygments

Example from hello-world:

MsgBox, Hello World

Example from the Hello World Collection:

; Hello World in AutoHotkey

Msgbox Hello, World!

Example from Linguist:

MsgBox, Hello`, World!

Example from Wikipedia:

^+w::last := CopyUser() ; Ctrl+Shift+w
^+e::edit := CopyUser() ; Ctrl+Shift+e

CopyUser() {
   Clipboard =
   StringReplace, Clipboard, Clipboard, http://en.wikipedia.org/
   StringReplace, Clipboard, Clipboard, wiki/
   StringReplace, Clipboard, Clipboard, w/index.php?title=
   StringReplace, Clipboard, Clipboard, Special:Contributions&target=
   StringReplace, Clipboard, Clipboard, User:
   StringReplace, Clipboard, Clipboard, &action=edit
   StringReplace, Clipboard, Clipboard, _, %A_Space%, All
   Return, Clipboard
}

; Ctrl+Shift+r
^+r::Send revert edits by [[Special:Contributions/%edit%|%edit%]] to last version by %last%

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Integers	✓	; \d+
Floats	✓	; (\d+\.\d\|\d\.\d+)([eE][+-]?[0-9]+)?
Hexadecimals	✓	; 0[xX][a-fA-F0-9]+
Octals	✓	; 0\d+
Assignment	✓		:=
Line Comments	✓	; A comment	;
Case Insensitive Identifiers	✓
Comments	✓
Semantic Indentation	X