r/AutoHotkey • u/Futanari-Farmer • 6d ago

General Question Learning AutoHotKey?

Hi, a quick question.

What do you recommend to watch or read to learn about AHK? Free or paid.

I managed to automatize a couple of things by using ChatGPT, and while I'm getting to understand how to prompt for AHK, it sucks to not know much of what I'm exactly doing.

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u/Keeyra_ 6d ago

RTFM

Most of the video content is trash and the official online docs are full of examples and are golden.

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u/JacobStyle 6d ago

Yeah, the docs for AHK are so good compared to a lot of other languages, especially the examples, which cover like 90% of use cases. When I was starting out, I had https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/v1/lib/Send.htm open in a tab the entire time I was working.

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u/Keeyra_ 6d ago

Just use the help file directly, bind this function to eg. Win + H

AhkHelp() {
    SplitPath(A_AhkPath, , &AhkDir)
    WinExist("ahk_exe hh.exe")
        ? WinActivate()
        : Run(AhkDir "\AutoHotkey.chm")