Question

In Autohotkey, I want the key pressed to serve its original purpose, while executing some additional functions.

For example, upon pressing “^a”, I’d like the “^a” to function as normal (e.g. Select All), and then send another “word”.

I tried to repeat the key being pressed, i.e. the following:

^a::
send, ^a
send, word
return

However, if I send the triggering keys (^a) again, the function will become “recursive” and never end.

Answer 1

$~^a::

The ~ will pass the ^a code through when the code is executed, so you don’t even need to repeat the send, ^a.