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Hi,

I'm using lots of text triggers to produce longer texts and URLs to help other in a few IRC channels. Sometimes those simply don't work. I have to go to a different IRC channel (another tab in the IRC client) and then back to the other channel to make it work again.

This doesn't happen that often but often enough to find it a bit annoying and wondering why it isn't working EVERY single time

Any ideas?

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This is probably due to the fact that by default, hotstrings must not be preceded by an alphanumeric character. Thus, if you type a letter or digit then click the mouse to focus some other control (or child window), then type a hotstring, the hotstring will not fire.

Assuming that's the problem, one possible work-around is to give your hotstrings the ? option if they're unique enough to tolerate allowing the preceding character to be a letter or digit. For example, if :?:al::airline is a hotstring, typing "practical " would produce "practicairline ".

Hmm, not sure if I understand that correctly, but I doubt that is the problem here. My hotstrings all look like .text and .bla and .xyz

I remember I sometimes was typing only .bla in a fresh line - nothing happened. I used backspace to delete it and typed .bla again - again, nothing happened. I then used Ctrl-TAB to move to another tab and Ctrl-Shift-TAB to return to the tab I was in before and when I now typed .bla again it worked as it should.

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Well, that's the only thing I can think of for now. If a way can be found to produce unexpected behavior on other PCs, I'll look into it further.