AutoHotKey is a language that is used for automation of simple tasks with a keypress. It can be used to do all sorts of things for example it can make one shortcut trigger another, or press a key, or move and click a mouse. This whole page is about AHK v2 because version 1 is now deprecated.
AutoHotKey has a very simple syntax the way it works is first you choose the key you want for example say I wanted to do the X key I would type x:: then after that I would tell it what to do. If I wanted it to do multiple things I would use {} to make multiple things from one trigger. If I wanted to do a shortcut like windows x then I would do #x, this is because in AutoHotKey since the command keys don't have letters assigned to them. Here is what they are ! is the alt key, + is the shift key, ^ is the control key, and windows is the # key. You can also use multiple of these keys for example ^+x would be control shift x.
Here is a table of all the important/helpful commands I have learned so far.
| Name | What It Does | Example |
|---|---|---|
| MsgBox | This command displays a windows message box with whatever data you put into it | MsgBox 'Hello World' |
| Sleep | This command tells a program to wait a certain amount of time in milliseconds | Sleep 1000 |
| Click | This command registers a mouse click at the current mouse position | Click |
| Loop #number {} | This command repeats whatever you put in it however many times you select, the number next to it is the amount of times it loops. | Loop 1000 {} |
| ExitApp | This command ends the script that is running. | ExitApp |
| Pause | This command either pauses the script unpauses the script or toggles between the two the number 1 is pause 0 is unpause and -1 is toggle | Pause -1 |