The IDA Pro Book, 2nd Edition

Associating IDC Scripts with Hotkeys

Occasionally you may develop a script so amazing in its utility that you must have access to it with a keystroke or two. When this happens, you will want to assign a hotkey sequence that you can use to quickly activate your script. Fortunately IDA provides a simple means to do this. Every time IDA is launched, the script contained in <IDADIR>/idc/ida.idc is executed. The default version of this script contains an empty main function and thus does nothing. To associate a hotkey with one of your scripts, you need to add two lines to ida.idc. The first line you must add is an include directive to include your script file in ida.idc. The second line you must add is a call, within main, to the AddHotkey function ...