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AutoIt for Visual Studio Code
Welcome to the AutoIt extension for Visual Studio Code! This has been forked
and developed from Damien122's release.
Features | Configuration | Keyboard Shortcuts | Contributing
Features
AutoIt Syntax highlighting
IntelliSense (code hints and completion)
Launch, compile and build scripts from VSCode
Launch AutoIt Help for highlighted text
Symbol search, press Ctrl+Shift+O
to see where Functions and Variables have been declared in the current script
Configuration
By default, this extension is set up for the default installation of AutoIt and SciTe4AutoIt on a 64-bit system. For alternate setups, you can access the user settings by navigating to File-> Preferences-> Settings
or invoking the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P
) and searching for Preferences (example) , and changing the following options:
Config
Description
Default
autoit.aiPath
Path to AutoIt Executable
"C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\AutoIt3.exe"
autoit.wrapperPath
Path to AutoIt3Wrapper
"C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\AutoIt3Wrapper\AutoIt3Wrapper.au3"
autoit.tidyPath
Path to Tidy
"C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\Tidy\Tidy.exe"
autoit.checkPath
Path to AutoIt Syntax Checker (Au3Check)
"C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\AU3Check.exe"
autoit.helpPath
Path to AutoIt Help
"C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\AutoIt3Help.exe"
autoit.infoPath
Path to Au3Info Executable
"C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\Au3Info.exe"
autoit.kodaPath
Path to Koda Form Designer
"C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\SciTE\Koda\FD.exe"
autoit.showVariablesInGoToSymbol
Determines whether to show or hide variables when using Ctrl+Shift+O (added in v0.1.9)
true
autoit.includePaths
Paths to look for include files from, in an array. (added in v0.1.9)
["C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\Include"]
autoit.consoleParams
A string of parameters passed to the console when the Run Script command is launched (added in v0.2.1)
""
Keyboard Shortcuts
Run Script: F5
AutoIt Check: Ctrl+F5
Compile Script: Ctrl+F7
Build Script: F7
Run AutoIt Help: Ctrl+F1
Run Au3Info: Ctrl+F6
Debug to MsgBox: Ctrl+Shift+D
Debug to Console: Alt+D
Run Koda: Alt+M
Set Command Line Parameters: Shift+F8
Kill Running Script: Ctrl+Pause/Break
Go To Definition (Jump to Variable or Function declaration): F12
Peek Definition (Show declarations in pop up): Alt+F12
NOTE:
Run, Compile and Build Script functions require the full install of SciTE4AutoIt3 alongside AutoIt.
Contributing
Check out the code, leave feedback and feature requests now on GitHub/loganch
Please fork the repository and contribute using pull requests.
Features | Configuration | Keyboard Shortcuts | Contributing