ErrorStdOut

[tcebob]

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I'm following a YouTube tutorial and got to this point. The message box comes up but I get an error comment. What does /ErrorStdOut mean?

[gregster]

This is not showing an error. Scite4AHk only tells you with this that it launched the script with the command line switch /ErrorStdOut (https://autohotkey.com/docs/Scripts.htm#cmd) when run through the editor.

So what does it do?

This allows fancy editors such as TextPad, SciTE, Crimson, and EditPlus to jump to the offending line when a syntax error occurs.

(https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/_ErrorStdOut.htm)

That means, syntax errors that prevent a script from launching are displayed in the stderr area rather than displaying a dialog. The stderr area is simply the area at the bottom of the editor where you read the term /ErrorStdOut, or

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>"C:\Program Files\AutoHotkey\AutoHotkey.exe" /ErrorStdOut "C:\Users\tcebo\Desktop\New AutoHotkey Script.ahk"

= Use Autohotkey.exe in the specified path to run the specified script and use the command line option /ErrorStdOut

[gregster]

With that said, you still have kind of a syntax error in your script, but that gets ignored, as I believe. But you could try it out

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#SingleInstance [Force]

is wrong. These brackets [ ] stand for optional parameters in the AHK help file and should not actually be included (exceptions in certain contexts, like array syntax, exist). I hope these brackets are not present in the video tutorial. It should read

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#SingleInstance Force

I think your code will act as if the parameter was completely omitted (compare https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/_S ... stance.htm, also the example section there for the correct syntax), because no valid parameter was found.
(Unfortunately), AHK is (sometimes) quite lenient in these cases.

[tcebob]

Many thanks! I did include the brackets because they appeared in Help.