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Well, there are multiple ways to do this, but I would welcome something that allows wildcard-matched text to be accessible from the subroutine.

Something like

"mail alan\n"

launches a scripted action where the mail subroutine performs an action on the argument "alan". Perhaps it looks up the email address in a file or something (basically can't use a simple hotstring replace because "alan"'s address isn't know at the point the script is written).

So the hotstring is something like:

:`n:mail *::
MsgBox, looking up email for %A_hotstring_match%

return

-Alan

I can see that it would be useful; so it might happen someday. In the meantime, I think something like this can be done by having a hotstring invoke the Input command to capture the person's name.