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I searched the help for an hour and was not able to discover how to send a Hotkey without redefining it. For example, suppose in a program you sometimes want a Control-B Hotkey to send Control-B.

Could someone direct me to the relevant Help section?

Do you mean that you don't want a static hotkey like this:
If so, you can create one like this:
If you want to make it dynamic you can use a variable:

If you mean you want to disable a hotkey, you can:

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i think he means this: (untested)



The $ makes it all work

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Or maybe he meant this:

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Thanks for your replies. I found by testing that a hotkey such as ^B cannot send ^B because that results in an infinite loop. I know there is a way to tell AutoHotKey not to interpet the sent ^B as a hotkey press, but I can't find the place in the help where it tells how to do that. Autohotkey is recursive apparently.

Sorry, at the time I posted the original message, I didn't know how to explain better.

Sometimes there are situations in which you want to make a ^B (Control-B) hotkey send ^B under some circumstances and do something else under other circumstances.

Like I said in my last post, $ makes it all work. the documentation for this is here:Hotkeys. Look at the table containing modifiers to find $

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Best of both worlds

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Michas, where are you getting this reques tto send either Ctrl or Alt B from? He only asked about control...

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The "do something else under other circumstances" part. I made it do something else. Since he didn't specify what "something else" I used my imagination. It does Ctrl-b and something else. What's the problem?

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I would like Control-B to send Control-B, as in:

^B::Send ^B

Try it, it doesn't work, because it sends the ^B back to AutoHotkey, which sends another ^B, which goes back to AutoHotkey, and so on.

Obviously, no one would do exactly that. I want to modify have Control-B send Control-B sometimes, and, programmatically, sometimes send something else.

Try it - it does work. Also try any of the code posted by Michas or me in this thread. We are giving you the answer you need. Add a $ to your hotkey, and it is allowed to send itselve without being recursive.

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Thanks very much.

I read the code, but didn't see the $, because I looked only in the lower portion of the code, assuming a normal hotkey was being defined.

Could you direct me to the place in the help where it describes this?

Thanks, again.

Again, this was in a previous post. the word "Hotkeys" here is a link:

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