Winmove error with "[" in window title

[joefiesta]

The following code produces an error. Specifically "Missing [".

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winmove, KEDIT - [, , 15, 43, 1316, 954

I can't find anything in the WinMove documentation https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/WinMove.htm
that leads me to believe my code is incorrect. There is also nothing a the documentation for a "Window Title" about this. That is at: https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/misc/WinTitle.htm

The title of the window is "KEDIT - [C: ..."

Is the documentation missing something or is my code incorrect?

[davebrny]

how about this?

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winmove, % "KEDIT - [", , 15, 43, 1316, 954

[BoBo]

Quite often you'll find the solution if looking at "related" commands > SetTitleMatchMode > RegEx
OR you change the windows title to your liking before further processing > WinSetTitle

[joefiesta]

Thank you "davebrny", but, I am looking for the answer to my question, not a workaround. My question, again, being: Is the documentation missing something or is my code incorrect?

[Osprey]

WinMove has two forms:

WinMove, X, Y
WinMove, WinTitle, WinText, X, Y [, Width, Height, ExcludeTitle, ExcludeText]

For the first form, the documentation says that X can be an expression and, from the "Expressions" section of the documentation:

[v1.0.97+]: Array literal. If the open-bracket is not preceded by a value (or a sub-expression which yields a value), it is interpreted as the beginning of an array literal. For example, [a, b, c] is equivalent to Array(a, b, c) (a, b and c are variables).

That's my guess as to what's going on, that it thinks that you're using the first form because you appear to be defining an array, but you're not finishing that definition. Such a WinTitle probably works with most other Win* commands, but not WinMove unless you use expression form (as davebrny used).

[jeeswg]

As Osprey alluded to, it looks like a parsing error by AutoHotkey, you used the parameter correctly, but AutoHotkey misinterpreted it.

If you'd added a closing square bracket and typed this:
winmove, KEDIT - [, , 15, 43, 1316, 954]
That would mean that you'd specified one parameter, equivalent to:
WinMove, X
Or at least, it could potentially mean that, if WinMove uses 'can be an expression' mode when there are 1 or 2 parameters.

I too received this error:
Error: Missing "]"
And this fix worked:
winmove, % "KEDIT - [", , 15, 43, 1316, 954

This would be a good post for Bug Reports perhaps.