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It looks rather unnaturally. Why don't you would to make this feature in the form of a #Directive, e. g.
#InspectScriptDir On|Off
?

It would be more complicated to implement that because both ahk2exe and the main program would have to be altered to search two paths: the working directory and then the script directory. Also, adding new directives is avoided unless there's a large benefit because it complicates the code and clutters the documentation with a new command/page.

However, your idea might be possible with something like the following to switch the working directory used by #Include:
#Include %A_ScriptDir% ; Switches to a new working directory for include files.

This is probably the best of both worlds. Thanks for the idea; I'll try to include it in the next release.

Great! Nice! Beautiful!
I'm happy!
Thank you Chris!
A further evolution may be in allowing multiple "#Include DirName" to specify all the directories where including files could be found:

Having multiple default-include directories might happen someday, but it tends to complicate things a lot.

Concerning the original topic: Upon review, I think you were right that #Include should have been designed to read from A_ScriptDir rather than A_WorkingDir (if for no other reason than to make the behavior consistent with ahk2exe). However, it seems best not to change it at this late a stage because: 1) It would probably break existing scripts; some of these breakages would be justifiable but others might be due to reliance on identically-named but different-content include files depending on working dir. 2) It preserves the flexibility of having includes vary (perhaps via the *i ignore option, or just in general) depending on startup/working directory.

This behavior difference between AutoHotkey.exe and ahk2exe.exe has now been documented.

I've included the following changes in today's update:

Improved #Include to be able to set a new working directory for subsequent uses of #Include and FileInstall. In addition, #Include is now able to resolve %A_ScriptDir%.

Improved FileInstall to always get the file from A_ScriptDir vs. A_WorkingDir when no absolute path is specified.

Thanks for your help.