How to setup SciTE auto-closing of quotes, brackets, parens etc.

In this video I walk through how to set up SciTE auto-closing quotes, curly braces, brackets, and parens. SciTE4AutoHotkey is a great AHK editor, this just makes it even better! Having SciTE automatically open & close your quotes, braces, Parens, etc. is a really handy way to level-up your coding!

Learning how to use an AutoHotkey IDE will greatly improve your coding speed!

[JeanLalondeMontreal]

Great tip. It worked perfectly as demonstrated. Thanks, Joe

[СергейДрузь-ьж]

Very interesting but Not working for me!

[rafxel]

Thank you very much Joe!

Since I had some difficulties myself, just like Jeff Main mentioned, I would like to offer some guidance regarding potential problems.

First:




The "UserLuaScript.lua" file is also in that same folder. In this file what worked for me was the following content:

-- UserLuaScript.lua
--

-- This file contains user-defined Lua functions
-- You are encouraged to add your own custom functions here!
-- ***AutoClose Begin***
--~

--~
EventClass:BeginEvents() -- Start up the events (Calls onstartup()).
-- ***AutoClose END

[JeffMain]

Somethings not right here. Of course the copy code on the linked website shows '***AutoClose Begin***' while the video shows '---***AutoClose Begin***' as a comment. Scite still doesn't auto close these characters. Do I need to change SciteUserHome to my scite directory???

[diegoj]

As the link for lua_files is broken I will post an alternate solution.
On Scite, goto Options -> Open Lua Startup Script
And copy the next code:

local Braces={['[']=']', ['\'']='\'', ['{']='}', ['(']=')', ['"']='"'}
OnChar=function(c)
c=Braces[c]
if c and editor.Focus then editor:insert(-1, c) end
end

[manojaggarwal]

Hello Joe.. I am trying to paste these lines -
--***AutoClose Begin***




EventClass:BeginEvents() -- Start up the events (Calls onstartup()).
-- ***AutoClose END




into UserLuaScript.lua But it is not letting me paste there. Infect I am unable to write anything in UserLuaScript.lua. When i open this file it shows me this warning-


please help..
Thanks..