AutoHotkey Community

hello AHK community!

I'm trying to use spacebar as a hotkey trigger, and the approach I'm taking doesn't seem to work. I'm essentially trying to have the spacebar pressed twice replace the spaces with a "." (like on the iphone).

I've tried two approaches:
code
::*space*space::.
/code

also
code
*space*space::
send .
/code

neither seems to work. any ideas on how to make this happen?

thanks!

Try

comvox,

thanks for your suggestion! it works when I haven't finished typing a word, as in if I start a new line and just hit space twice. However, if I finish typing a word and then immediately hit space twice, it doesn't do anything (unless I hit space three times).

perhaps this isn't really possible, since the hotkey would need to be programmed for pretty much every single letter of the alphabet, I'm guessing.

any other thoughts?

Well, let's try an additional hotstring option: