Lintalist

All I can think of is adding a extensive debug function that logs every "action" and saves it to a log file every few minutes - and once it fails...

Just so you know - the latest update didn't address this issue, just updates for updating/restarting lintalist.

As mentioned sometimes reloading doesn't help, could it be that for one reason or another the shorthand is actually disabled? Perhaps worth checking the variable when you press the reload...

As of AutoHotkey v1.28.0.0 there is the https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/Hotstring.htm function which should be used to replace the "shorthand" function - this will allow for more flexibility in how to define hotstrings...

There is no setting or search method available but you could modify the script. Open `lintalist.ahk` in your preferred text editor, can be notepad as well. Place a `;` semi-colon...

No I'm afraid not - lintalist would have be modified in such a way to tell it one way or another to search in part1, part2, shorthand, hotkey, script -...

There is now a query format `part

Yes, using the two standard methods above (32/64-bit) you can use JS and VBScript. You can also use AHK in JS using the https://github.com/Aurelain/Exo library

Yes, using Hotstrings() should improve the overall reliability and possibly offer some speed improvements.

A (experimental!) development branch is available here: https://github.com/lintalist/lintalist/tree/dev-hotstrings If you try it out please make sure you have a backup of your bundles, they may end up corrupted (shouldn't happen...