Maintenance mode announcement

AHK++ will go into maintenance mode on January 1, 2027. Critical bugs and security issues will still be addressed, but no new features will be added. See the announcement for more details.

Install

AHK++ is available for: VS Code | Theia IDE | VSCodium | any other IDE that supports *.vsix extensions

Download from a trusted source: Visual Studio Marketplace | Open VSX Registry | GitHub releases

Commands

With AHK++, you can compile, debug, and run your scripts with keyboard shortcuts. You can also run a selection as a standalone script.

• Compile: Ctrl+Shift+F9
• Debug: Ctrl+Alt+F9
• Open help: Ctrl+F1
• Run: Ctrl+F9
• Run selection: Ctrl+F8
• Stop: Ctrl+F6

Debug

There are some known issues with the debugger. If you need an advanced setup, we recommend zero-plusplus.vscode-autohotkey-debug for now. Please open an issue if the built-in debugger does not support your needs. As zero-plusplus.vscode-autohotkey-debug is closed-source, we will be working to introduce advanced debugger features to ensure an open-source, collaborative, complete extension is available to the AHK community 🙂

1. Click the debug button in the editor title menu (at the top right of the editor) or press Ctrl+Alt+F9.

2. The debugger supports breakpoints, stack tracing, and variable watching

   Demo GIF

   

Debug features

1. Output message: You can use OutputDebug command instead of MsgBox to log values.

   

2. Evaluate: Set and get variable values through the debug console.

   

This extension provides basic debugging functions. If you need more debugging functions (such as conditional breakpoints), you can add an additional extension: Install vscode-autohotkey-debug.

Language features

Go to definition

1. Supports navigation to symbol definition.
2. Usage: Ctrl-click on the symbol to navigate to its definition.

Find symbol references

Select a symbol, then:

• Right-click and select Find All References.
• Or press Shift+F12.

Hover tip

Usage: Hover over symbol to see IntelliSense documentation.

Outline

Assign name to block of code via double semicolon comment ;;Name and go to it from outline.

Folding

Custom folding regions:

;region
MsgBox % "Collapse me!"
;endregion

; Block comments with regions
/* ;region
Collapse me!
*/ ;endregion

Code format

Supports standard VS Code formatting with a few options.

Formatter directives

Formatter directives instruct the formatter to behave a certain way on sections of code.

1. FormatBlockComment:

   ;@AHK++FormatBlockCommentOn
   /*
   ;All text inside block comment will be formatted like regular code.
   */
   ;@AHK++FormatBlockCommentOff
   

2. AlignAssignment:

   ;@AHK++AlignAssignmentOn
   a          = 5 ; number five
   str        = legacy text = with equal symbol
   inputFile := "movie.mkv"
   abc       := "abc" ; string
   abc       := a + b
   ;@AHK++AlignAssignmentOff
   

💚 Acknowledgements

This extension relies heavily on open-source code. A huge thank you to all these open-source contributors who made the extension what it is today!

• AutoHotkey Plus by cweijan: AHK++ is a fork of AutoHotkey Plus by cweijan (Weijan Chen)
• AutoHotkey v2 Language Support extension by thqby: The source of the v2 grammar and other great contributions
• Contributions to AHK++ by kyklish: Greatly improved formatting and snippets by both fixing bugs and adding features
• AutoHotkey v2 definition files by GroggyOtter
• AHK version selection by Lexikos: The core code for automatically switching AHK versions
• AutoHotkey by stef-levesque: AutoHotkey Plus is a fork of stef-levesque's original AutoHotkey extension, which provided the original grammar and snippets for AHK
• People like you: Thank you for opening issues, offering suggestions, and providing information to the AHK community :)

Links

• GitHub repo: View code, file bugs, and join discussions
• Reviews on VS Marketplace: Help others discover AHK++ by leaving a review