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[thomasl]

Sending the sequence a|a produces aa\. (The character between the a's is ASCII 124.)

This happens with both hotstrings and the Send command.

thomasl

PS: Win2K SP4, 1.40.08

[mario_a]

Nope, works fine here.

Sometimes such behaviour is caused by the editor you are using.
Try sending the keys to Notepad to verify this.

[Chris]

If you use multiple languages or keyboard layouts, it could also be due to the corresponding item in the FAQ.

[thomasl]

No, single language.

But I have found the problem. I have this:

+\:: Send, \

and this:

^+\:: Send, |

What happens (not entirely illogical but also not entirely what I would have expected) is that the sent | triggers the first hotkey (ie +\).

Nevertheless, something fishy must be going on because once I changed the second definition to

^+\:: Send, a|a

I received aa\. I now understand why there is a \ but I do not understand why it comes up *after* the second a.

[Chris]

That happens due to the following sequence:
1) Pressing the hotkey causes the Send command to trigger another hotkey (as you know).
2) The Send command is designed to be uninterruptible, so its triggering of another hotkey waits until the Send finishes.
3) The second hotkey runs and sends its character.

This issue can be solved by putting a $ prefix before any hotkey you don't want triggerable by the Send command. This makes it into a hook hotkey. For example: $+\:: Send, \