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I really don't want to bind the ` key to some other character in my script and am dying to use it for my HotString such as:

c:hi`::^+{Left}^xHello ^v{BS}{!}

Of course this gives an invalid hotkey error when I run the script.

Is there a way to use the ` key? I tried hi{`} but that didn't work.

This is my first day writing AHK scripts which I'm using for repetitive tickets at work. It's really handy but I am so used to using ` for the ending character that I'm determined to figure out a way to do it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as searching for this character doesn't really work so well and I've not found a list of invalid characters or workarounds in docs. =)

-Benji

I ended up just setting the trailing character to \ . It's almost as fun and enables single hand commands more easily so I like it pretty well. Thanks for reading. I'll be dorking around here more often now that I've got a couple pages of AHK script written to automate some of my work.

Next curiosity is getting AHK to work in windows generate from Putty and mstsc. Not sure how I'm going to fare with these and will search about first.

Cheers,
Benji

Since hotstrings accept escape sequences (like `t for tab), ` must also be escaped: