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Hi. Just wondering if I can do like in Microsoft Word search backwards. I'm trying to send keystroke to do backward search of a space. Actually what I want my script to do is delete a word, to the left side. I'm trying to search the space to the left after this word.

That will erase text until the next space. (Unless you're starting with a space, in which case it will erase until the first space after it reaches a character)

Hope that made sense and helped.

tested in notepad.

for me, ctrl+backspace prints a little rectangle () at the caret (in notepad), though it does work in firefox.

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Thank you guys for the quick reply. Yea, ctrl backspace also gave me box thingy. VXE your code worked perfectly. I tried to change {Left} with {Right} in hopes to delete word to the right, but didn't work. Just wondering if you have any ideas.

VXE, help me how to delete word to the right using same principle. I put {right} in place of {left} but didn't. Thanks in advance. I appreciate it.

I'm not sure exactly what you're asking for.

This *should* work. If you're having trouble, please give more information about what isn't working and about what you've tried to get it to work.

btw: recent experimentation has lead me to discover that [shift][del] is the same as 'cut' (or [ctrl][v]). I didn't know that before

[edit:] typo

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Works perfect now. Thanks VXE. I just missed the second "}". Anywho, I was trying to have ctrl BS as hotkey, but didn't get it to work. Where did I go wrong?

$^BS::Send, {blind}^{Left}{BS}

Well, my previous code relied on the [shift] key being already down, hence the {blind} flag.

The exact sending without the {blind} should be
*untested*

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On second thought I can't have use CTRL cause I'm gonna need it to browse in between tabs in FF. I thought to use this one I don't know the name of the key is, which is the one in between RWin and RCtrl. Logo looks like a box with cursor. Also near Ctrl, it's convenient enough. VXE if you can please code me to have it

(???logo here???)+PgUp::Send, ^+{Left}{BS}
(???logo here???)+PgDn::Send, ^+{Right}{BS}

It is called the AppsKey, http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/KeyList.htm

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