Opening AutoHotkey Help from Visual Studio Code

I am using Visual Studio Code as code editor for my AutoHotkey development. I was looking for an easy way to open the AHK documentation about a selected command from the editor. Here is my final solution.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find such a built-in feature in a VSCode extension for AHK.

I personally use now Mark Wiemer AutoHotkey Plus Plus extension. (It looks like the most maintained extension)

I have made a feature request here: https://github.com/mark-wiemer/vscode-autohotkey-plus-plus/issues/78 

fade2gray posted his solution that is based on (...) a AutoHotkey script.

Here is my final implementation in NWS PowerTool (Code NWS.ahk - dependency Clip_GetSelection)

This is a bit more robust than the solution by fade2gray (it will only get once in the script runtime the snippets):

#If (WinActive("ahk_exe Code - Insiders.exe") || WinActive("ahk_exe Code.exe")) && WinActive(".ahk")

!h:: ; Alt+h AHK Open Help command

cmd:= Clip_GetSelection()

If !cmd

    return

If !snippets {

; Make sure command has been copied to the clipboard and run this script

    If WinActive("ahk_exe Code - Insiders.exe")

        sVSDir := "C:\Users\" A_UserName "\.vscode-insiders"

    Else

        sVSDir := "C:\Users\" A_UserName "\.vscode"

    

    Loop, Files,% sVSDir "\extensions\*", D 

        If InStr(A_LoopFilePath, "mark-wiemer.vscode-autohotkey-plus-plus"){

            ahkjsonFile := A_LoopFilePath "\snippets\ahk.json"

            Break

        }

    FileRead, snippets, %ahkjsonFile%

} 

If !ahkjsonFile and !InStr(snippets, cmd){

    MsgBox, Invalid command '%cmd%'.

    return

}

Run,% "https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/" cmd ".htm"

Return

To use it select the command and run the hotkey (in my case alt+h)

See also

AutoHotkey Plus Plus VSCode extension