$ whois autohotkey

AutoHotkey

first released in 2003 · by Chris Mallett

$ guessprog --inspect autohotkey

year: 2003
paradigm: procedural
family: other
memory: reference counting
binding: dynamic
safety: weak

AUTOHOTKEY(7)

AUTHORS: Chris Mallett
HISTORY: Chris Mallett released AutoHotkey in 2003 as a free scripting language for automating Windows. He had proposed adding hotkey support to AutoIt, another Windows automation tool, and when the idea found no takers he built his own program with a syntax based on AutoIt's. Scripts can remap keys, expand typed abbreviations, send keystrokes and mouse clicks, and control windows, which made it popular with people who are not professional programmers. Version 2, a largely incompatible cleanup of the syntax, was released in 2022.
USAGE: Widely used by Windows power users, gamers and office workers to automate repetitive tasks and create keyboard shortcuts. It is a niche, Windows-only tool with an active community rather than a general-purpose language.
SEE ALSO: AutoHotkey on Wikipedia ↗

$ cat shortcuts.ahk

; Ctrl+Alt+N focuses Notepad, or starts it if not running
^!n:: {
    if WinExist("ahk_exe notepad.exe")
        WinActivate
    else
        Run "notepad.exe"
}

; Typing "btw" followed by a space expands it
::btw::by the way

; Win+Up toggles always-on-top for the active window
#Up::WinSetAlwaysOnTop -1, "A"