Reply To: hotkey button "stuck" in RetroArch

[Floob]

Perhaps when you use the auto file, it is importing it before the
input_enable_hotkey = “tab” line in your main retroarch.cfg file ?

Therefore it gets overwritten by the keyboard tab setting later in that file?

You could check this by putting it back how it was then run it and press tab and then a hotkey button on your joypad.

For reference, this structure works fine for me (uses hotkey in auto file no problem).
https://www.petrockblock.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/retroarch.txt

You can compare yours here:

https://www.diffchecker.com/

As a side note, I really need to work out if it cares about the button codes being in quotes or not. “”.