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According to the manual:



For instance this won't send the backticks:and this one won't even run:I get the error

If the Raw mode send keystrokes exactly as they appear then it shouldn't treat the backtick as an escape character.

Even this fails:Using that ^ code, it actually sends this:
However, this does work:

Tested on AHK basic and AHK_L under XP sp3 x86

David

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IIRC escape chars are processed before the script at load time, so how the escape chars work doesn't change no matter what command they're used in. So this:



should throw an error.

As far as your other example, I had no issues making this hotkey work:



Output:



Using 1.0.92.02 on WIN7.

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That's as they appear to the command, not as they appear in the editor. The point is that SendRaw doesn't do any parsing, such as for ^!+{Keys}. You expect it to resolve variable references, so why should ` be treated literally? (Like sinkfaze said, escape sequences are resolved at too early a stage for SendRaw to see them.)

I wasn't aware that escape sequences where parsed when the script loads. To me, if the documentation says that it should send asis, that is what I would expect.

I will put this on my list of document changes to update the official docs to show that Raw won't send ` on it's own.

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It won't send % either, unless you escape it. Are you going to mention that? Seriously, it sends exactly the string it is given. If the current documentation is misleading, it should be clarified; but not by merely pointing out that ` still acts as the escape char, since that really has nothing to do with SendRaw. ` and % aren't even necessarily the only cases. For instance,
Would you expect (LTrim ) or the indentation to be sent? They do "appear" after all.

Docs say "The SendRaw command sends the keystrokes exactly as they appear"

As they appear where? (Maybe the docs should say where)
On the screen in the text editor? (NO)
On some imaginary text editor in the sky that knows ' and % won't be sent.
What other single characters will SendRaw not send?

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