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Hi, I have caps lock set up to press escape and scroll lock to turn on caps lock and pause to turn it off. That works well everywhere except that in Autocad, when caps lock is off, when you try to edit multi line text, it brings up an internal editor window, which in turn tries to turn on caps-lock, which autohotkey translates to 'esc', and the editor window is immediately exited. If caps lock is set on, I can get into the editor without a problem. If I go into it, and _then_ turn off caps lock, it exits also.

If I turn off the script that does that, I can enter into the editor without problem BUT it does turn on caps automatically, however you can turn them off when inside without a problem. If caps are on, they stay on. This is of course very weird behaviour from autocad, but I'm wondering if it's possible to have caps lock sent from acad to be interpeted as caps lock instead of esc? I can't make an exception for autocad & keep this binding off for it because it's mainly useful for me in autocad (and vim).

p.s. the editor window does not have a title. It's sort of a special in-acad 'window' that doesn't look anything like normal windows but has a separate floating bar with text properties and separate area with a very narrow bar on top only for moving around and the rest is editing area. Acad version is 2005. I cannot upgrade, unfortunately, which would most likely fix this problem.

thx! -ak

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-AK