(Lister) Esc button won't work in Explorer Preview

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(Lister) Esc button won't work in Explorer Preview

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It seems like it's part of this (https://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=54317#p360486) problem, but...
I can (and did) set Explorer Preview as Lister default for .doc, .docx, etc. files, so it would be wonderful if I could use Esc to close the window.
Is it possible? Just to make Esc work?
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Re: (Lister) Esc button won't work in Explorer Preview

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This cannot be fixed. The Explorer preview handlers use their own windows and "eat" most hotkeys, including '4' and ESC.
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I think I can (or can I?) make it work via an autohotkey script (by using the AutoHotKey app). But I have no idea what lister's handle is, as well as the syntax: totalcmd.exe_lister (Lister), ..?

UPD
It turns out I can do it by running the following script:

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#IfWinActive Lister
Esc::WinKill
One can convert it to .exe file and run at every Windows startup
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Re: (Lister) Esc button won't work in Explorer Preview

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mackeev wrote: 2020-01-23, 07:09 UTC It seems like it's part of this (https://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=54317#p360486) problem, but...
I can (and did) set Explorer Preview as Lister default for .doc, .docx, etc. files, so it would be wonderful if I could use Esc to close the window.
Is it possible? Just to make Esc work?
There are much netter previews for this file types,Ulister for Exempel.
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If "netter" means "better" then no. uLister is pure crap. I really have no idea why you guys keep swearing by it.
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mackeev wrote: 2020-01-30, 07:13 UTC If "netter" means "better" then no. uLister is pure crap. I really have no idea why you guys keep swearing by it.
Because it Displays many file formats without Problems.
Whatever problems you have, it looks like most of us dont have major problems
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Re: (Lister) Esc button won't work in Explorer Preview

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Nonetheless fixed in 9.51!
Thank you, Christian.
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Re: (Lister) Esc button won't work in Explorer Preview

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Indeed I'm using a keyboard hook now to intercept keypresses in Explorer preview. The following key presses should work:
Esc (in Lister)
Tab (in Ctrl+Q)
n,p (next/previous file)
1..8 (switch to other mode)
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