A small life hacking typing using Autohotkey

I have been using Autohotkey's wonderful all-purpose automation tool for a long time.

And once I decided that it would be nice to place dashes, dots and quotes, "Christmas trees" in the right places.
The following simplest script auto replaces a double hyphen on a dash, three dots on a dot and a double e on opening and closing quotes and puts the cursor between them (this combination in fairly fresh versions of autohotkey will work only in the Russian layout, the letter e is selected, because Quotes are located in the English layout).
The advantage of this method is that the insertion of characters does not require resorting to modifier keys.

Actually, the replacement rules:
::--::—
:*?:... ::…{space}
:o:::«»{Left}

PS: Could you tell me a similar solution for Linux?