title: How to disable syntax characters in autohotkey?
body: <p>I want to create a program in autohotkey so that when ~pdo is typed it replaces it with a long line of code. How do I do it so that the symbols inside do not get formatted as autohotkey syntax?</p>
  <p>I have tried the following code:</p>
  <pre><code>~pdo:Send,
  
  $pdo = new PDO('mysql:dbname=chat;host=localhost', 'root', 'simon sleeping123!@#');
   
  $pdo-&gt;setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES, false);
  $pdo-&gt;setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
  date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');
  </code></pre>
  <p>In return I get the error message:
  Line Text: $pdo-&gt;setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES,false);    Error: Invalid hotkey.</p>