Tab send Tab problem?? Topic is solved

[jkmgme]

I didn't see a welcome thread, so I figured I'd post here. Howdy, Y'all! Nice to be on a forum. It's been a minute.

I'm running into an issue where the following script (both) will repetitively and quickly press {tab} like it's in a loop... I have no idea what's going on or how to fix it. It'll throw a max memory error after pressing tab and allowing the script to run so many times. Help??

The goal is just to have caps lock turned off when I press tab.

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#Persistent
Tab::
send {tab down}
send {tab up}
SetCapsLockState, Off
return

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#Persistent
Tab::
send {tab}
SetCapsLockState, Off
return

[gregster]

Welcome to the forum!

Use the $ modifier to prevent that the sent Tab triggers the Tab hotkey in an indefinite loop...

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$Tab::
send {tab}
SetCapsLockState, Off
return

See https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Hotkeys.htm#Symbols

Btw, your signature is quite irritating... at least in the forum theme I am using. Please consider adjusting it

[jkmgme]

Welcome to the forum!

Use the $ modifier to prevent that the sent Tab triggers the Tab hotkey in an indefinite loop...

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$Tab::
send {tab}
SetCapsLockState, Off
return

See https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Hotkeys.htm#Symbols

Btw, your signature is quite irritating... at least in the forum theme I am using. Please consider adjusting it

Thank you so much! That, of course, worked.

I changed the signature by removing the code tag. Is that better? Or is it then ahk code nature of the signature?

[gregster]

You are welcome!

I like your signature better now. Thank you!
Before, at least on my dark forum theme, it looked like part of the question (although there was a thin, dark line above it - which is not necessarily unique to a signature, though)... and I usually don't expect a codebox in the sig

[S1lver]

prevent hotkey send in an indefinite loop...

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$Tab::
send {tab}

Thank you so much mann. that was the trouble with all my scripts. cheers cheers cheers

[Mod edit: Fixed quote.]