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my favourite definition. sends ^w or !f4, depending on which application is open.

and that ` key is nice and handy on the keyboard.

jack
you know where you are with a one-button mouse

Great job covering your bases... But doesn't this work just as well?



This is more efficient since there's only three lines to process, and no keystrokes to send. It works for all self-contained windows. I don't have Emacs so I can't test it on that, but I'm reasonably sure it would still work. And, in the direction of efficiency, you can optimize it even further:



Of course, this still might not work for some windows, in which case your script would work better. I don't have any such applications to test it on. If this is the case, though, it still should be optimized. There is a gap, albeit an extremely small one, between key press and execution. Here's the optimized version (You can change the values to 0 rather than -1 if it causes an unwanted cpu spike):



But if it works, the WinClose command would probably be better, not just for efficiency but because it's also more flexible.

hello guest

you're quite right, of course -- winclose is better than !F4 and i expect it is quicker with the batchlines and windelay.

i've tried adding the new lines and unfortunately i can't see any difference. the windows used to close instantly before the improvements and they still do that after the improvements :)

i can't get rid of the emacs bit. i actually want the keystroke to go to emacs because i use it there for dynamic abbreviations (type some letters, press the key, it hunts back for a word beginning with those letters and completes the word).


thanks

jack
no matter how young a prune is, it's always full of wrinkles

Heh. You don't have to call those "improvements," the word I used was optimizing, meaning it speeds them up on a low level.

Anyway, I wasn't exactly talking about a noticeable difference in speed, but rather about the core efficiency of it. I'm a purist, so I try my best to only use hotkeys to execute functions when I need to, especially if another hotkey is activating the script. In this case, you could integrate the two, having WinClose in place of !F4, and having the hotkey for everything else.

As for my optimization, if the increase in speed is so subtle that it doesn't matter, you should probably remove them. It makes the script take full priority for as long as it takes to run, and while it's so small it usually won't matter, it's best not to have a tiny thing like this interrupting more important programs. Again, this is an extremely insignificant point, only to be taken if you're a perfectionist like me.

On the purist note, a non-sendkey alternative to the Emacs problem is this: Find the control using Winspector or Spy++ and use PostMessage to make the hotkey send that function to Emacs, instead of WinClose. See this thread for details on that. It's simpler than it sounds.