virtualphoton / brackets_macros

Brackets autocomplete macro

The macro helps to work with brackets, resembling behaviour of such IDEs as PyCharm. It will be shown on example of (, but user defines the set of brackets, or similar objects, such as quotation marks or dollar signs

• typing ( will also create )
• selecting text and pressing ( will wrap it - (text) and text will be selected (hence, it can be wrapped with multiple brackets) (currently, it works quite slowly on long strings)
• typing ( and then pressing Backspace will erase both ( and ) (if any other key was pressed/the mouse was moved this behaviour won't appear)
• typing ), when there's already ) right after the cursor and there's an unmatched ( before cursor (on the same line) will cause cursor to move left instead of typing ) (though, this yet doesn't work for cases when opening and closing "brackets" are the same - e.g. pressing $ will always create $$)

List of brackets can be set in main.ahk:

• brackets_start - dictionary with keys - hotkeys, values - array of length 3: opening_bracket, closing_bracket, [data_about_hotkey]. data_about_hotkey is dictionary with fields that can change behaviour for current hotkey (actually, there were more than 1, but they turned out to be redundant):
  • ru_char - char printed if keyboard layout is Russian (since some characters on it differ from the english layout)
• brackets_end - to skip closing brackets instead of printing them (as described earlier). Same parameters as in previous: unclosed opening_bracket - will be searched.

To run script, run main.ahk.

To temporarily turn the script off (or turn it on after that), press Ctrl+J