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Guest · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 11:50 pm Post subject: hotstrings ending in a colon?

This hotstring definition:

::aa:::bb

cases 'aa' to be replaced by ':bb' whereas what is intended is for 'aa:' to be replaced by 'bb'.

Escape sequences do no good, because `:: gobbles up two colons..

vahju · Joined: 17 Feb 2008 Posts: 97

I believe the answer is in the first post linked below.

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12484&highlight=colon+hotkey

Guest · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 7:53 am Post subject:

Got it!

Guest · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 4:49 pm Post subject: don't got it!

Hi, I'm the original poster of the message and I don't understand Smile

. After looking at the Hotkey command, it doesn't seem it will work for hotstrings, and all of the results when searching the help for 'virtual key code' etc seem to also involve hotkeys, rather than hotstrings...

engunneer · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:05 pm Post subject:

you may also try regex powered dynamic hotstrings by Titan
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Guest · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:06 pm Post subject:

the regex hotstrings look powerful, but surely there's a simpler way to have a hotstring ending in a colon?

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Guest · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 6:58 pm Post subject: guest?

lol, actually i registered, but for some reason my firefox has problems with many websites signing in--sometimes i have to sign in several times before it works, and on this site, it never worked! It might also be my residences legendarily bad internet that just randomly corrupts packets and things.

engunneer · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 7:42 pm Post subject:

have you updated to firefox 3?
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Guest · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 2:07 am Post subject:

no, there's another item on my todo list, although it's further down than finishing this ahk script Wink