Invalid Hotstring options dont raise error/warning.

[RaptorX]

I was testing some code and noticed that while this raises an error:

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~%F1::msgbox true ; think about adding an invalid modifier/option to a hotkey

I would have expected the same behavior with hotstrings but if you try this code:

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:$*:btw::by the way ; invalid hotstring option

The error is just ignored v1 style.
You can try using any invalid character there an no errors are raised, but the script keeps running without issues, they are just ignored.

Is that intended behavior?

[swagfag]

https://github.com/AutoHotkey/AutoHotkey/blame/27a2d5f2ae392c9d2cf2ef1a2f136659831749b8/source/hotkey.cpp#L2509-L2587
considering this hasnt been touched much since v1, yes, uve got literal v1 style error reporting. none whatsoever

as for whether its intended, doubt it. but since noones complained hard enough about this so far and it wouldnt have been worth delaying the release to fix it, it is what it is

[RaptorX]

Hopefully this will be addressed soon.