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Here's a little challenge: predict what will happen if you save this script under the name weirdflow, run it, and with its own window active (which is just a way of establishing a true #If condition), type q and then z.



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For reasons I have been unable to imagine, in the case without any context condition, the script's output is dumped back into the script, and can trigger more hotkeys in a daisy chain which can be extended indefinitely. In the example, typed z generates "cows."

Also weird is the effect of specifying a context condition which was always fulfilled. You would think that does nothing; but in fact it shuts down the flow, and sends initial script output to the client: typed q generates q.

If there's a rationale for this, I'd be very interested to hear it.

You have failed to read part of the documentation or perhaps didn't understand.
There are 12 hotkey modifiers including "$".
Please read about it and the other 11, it is time will spent.

http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Hotkeys.htm#Symbols

http://l.autohotkey.net/docs/Hotkeys.htm#Symbols


For your edification, information and amusement -- may I suggest working through the tutorials ?
http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Tutorial.htm
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47791