The example below makes Ctrl+⇧ Shift+Q replace selected text in an editor with a quoted version of that text. It illustrates the use of functions, arguments and default argument values.

    1. ^+q::QuoteSelection()  ; Ctrl+Shift+Q
    3. QuoteSelection()
    4. {
    5.     selection:= GetSelection()  ; Get selected text.
    6.     PasteText(Quote(selection))  ; Quote the text and paste it back.
    7. }
    9. GetSelection(timeoutSeconds:= 0.5)
    10. {
    11.     Clipboard:= ""  ; Clear clipboard for ClipWait to function.
    12.     Send ^c  ; Send Ctrl+C to get selection on clipboard.
    13.     ClipWait %timeoutSeconds% ; Wait for the copied text to arrive at the clipboard.
    14.     return Clipboard
    15. }
    17. PasteText(s)
    18. {
    19.     Clipboard:=s  ; Put the text on the clipboard.
    20.     Send ^v  ; Paste the text with Ctrl+V.
    21. }
    23. Quote(s)
    24. {
    25.     return """" . s . """"
    26. }