Auto Hot Key

Thought I would write a post about one of the most useful tools I have come across – Auto Hot Key. This is an awesomely useful and powerful tool and I haven’t even scratched the surface, but it really comes in handy when programming, so that you can bust out the syntax for that foreach loop/switch statement/do-while just like nothing.

But my favourite use is for debugging. I can just jump to anywhere in my code, write site test;[enter] and I’m all ready to output that database result/globals array/object. With the following entry…

 :oc:site test;::
(
echo "[pre tag] style='color: red' ";
print_r($);
echo "[pre tag]";
) 

It will insert…

echo "[pre tag] style='color: red' ";
print_r($);
echo "[pre tag]"; 

Of course, this is the most simple use of this tool, you just need to browse the website a little to recognise the potential. Enjoy!

(replace the [pre] tags with actual pre tags by the way)

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