Nov 30, 2009

I hate repetitive typing

I hate typing repetitive things. At work, I am fortunate enough to be on Windows XP. I’m a “web producer” but I’ve long since given myself a title called “copy and paste machine”. Essentially, at any given second during my job, I’m probably copying and pasting some sort of text, formatting the html, and posting it to the site via our Very Bad CMS tool.

There are a few things that I use over and over again. To cut back on the repetition of long snippets of coding needed, I downloaded a program called Auto Hotkey. Simply put, you install the program. Write a script. And put the script to use. I have included a sample script below for those curious of the syntax. Further information can be found at their website.

Here is a sample script that I copied and pasted from the script I used at work:


:*:img::<img src="http://images.military.com/pics/

:*:entsty::style="padding-right:8px;" align="left">

::GR::Game Review:

::BR::Book Review:

::href::<a href="

:*:blank::target="_blank"

:*:dpt::http://www.military.com/deployment