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Maybe a mistake in the docs, or I misunderstand s.th but in the documentation for WinHide is written


On the other hand the docs about WinShow say:


What now? Do I have to switch DetectHiddenWindows to on or not?

May be you can try the 2 possibilities and tell us witch one is the good one ?

Sorry.

I must apologize for this. I overread the little word 'not' in
So obviously all makes sense.

I read so many commands where everywhere was written (DetectHiddenWindows needs to be ON ...) that I didn't read this sentence very accurately in the WinShow command. I don't know why, but I just expected this sentence to be the same as in all other commands.
Let's say it was an optical illusion to me.

perhaps the documentation should read for clarity

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I know the wording can make it easy to misread things. When reading, I also miss the word "not" often. In that sense, I think contractions like "doesn't" are better because the apostrophe makes the word stand out more. But since contractions are generally avoided in formal documenation, I reworded it to be, "DetectHiddenWindows can be either On or Off to do this."

Perfect.