Autocompleting parenthesis and placing cursor inbetween Topic is solved

[AndrewKun]

Hi,

I'm trying to create an autocompletion script for parenthesis and quotes, like it is done in many IDEs. For example if I double press "<", it should output "<>" and place the cursor in the middle.

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$+<::
	If (A_ThisHotKey = A_PriorHotkey and A_TimeSincePriorHotkey < 300) {
		SendInput >
		Send, {Left}
	}
	else {
		SendInput <
	}
return

The point is to type <> and position cursor in between when I double press the Shift+< key. This works, but the problem is that I use also non-english keyboard layouts, and when I need Shift+< to type non-english character on the same key (russian 'Б' in my case), I also get "<" symbol. I tried to use "Send %A_ThisHotkey%" but it sends "<" anyway, and if I just remove the else statement it doesn't send anything at all.

How can I send the original keypress in the else statement, or bypass the script if the "IF "statement is false? Or maybe there's more elegant solution?

[smarq8]

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~$+<::

like this?

[Nextron]

Without having this hotkey, what's AHK's key history when you press Shift+< using either keyboard layout?

[AndrewKun]

Without having this hotkey, what's AHK's key history when you press Shift+< using either keyboard layout?

It's the following:
A0 02A d 0.45 LShift
BC 033 h d 0.30 ,
BC 033 i d 0.00 ,
BC 033 i u 0.00 ,
BC 033 s u 0.08 ,
A0 02A u 0.30 LShift

I've tried using VK and SC, but it doesn't help in this case

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~$+<::

like this?

Actually, this is useful, I did like this

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~$+<::
	If (A_ThisHotKey = A_PriorHotkey and A_TimeSincePriorHotkey < 300) {
		SendInput >
		Send, {Left}
		Send, {Backspace}
	}
return

This way the script deletes extra character when using English Keyboard, and on the russian I don't use double press anyway, so it works. But this is a crude solution, I'm sure it can be solved much better with AHK, because autocompleting different parenthesis and quotes (like { [ " ' e.t.c.) is a very common feature among programmers.

Thank you very much for your suggestion, the scrpit is at least usable now.

UPD: I've modified the opening question to better reflect the task and the problem.