How do i make this possible? [button programming]

[Rectifier]

Hey!
I would like to program my key on the keyboard to do a specific task. In my case, I would like it to do following:
I select a bit of text

then I press the button (or combination of buttons)
and the system adds
## around the text I have selected.

OS - Windows 8

Anyone that can help?

 

[DavidSnider]

Is this for a single application or all applications? There isn't really a reliable way of doing this for any program.
Best bet is to read it from the clipboard and if it matches a specific pattern then evaluate it.

For a single application it's pretty easy. Almost every textbox implementation has a Control.SelectedText property you can read.

 

[B0b-A]

Maybe possible to do that with a macro in a word-processor like Open Office.

If each of the strings is on a separate line, this online tool will modify them en-mass ... http://textmechanic.com/Add-Prefix-Suffix-to-Text.html