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jchigg2000

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About jchigg2000

Software engineer, 20 years. Mostly full-stack in regulated enterprise - an industry allergic to them. Kansas.

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    Comment #48373168

    +2 to the unnameable pattern match

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    Comment #48369851

    Wondering the same, there is some weirdness around the clipboard and CGEvents though. Are you avoiding the clipboard entirely in your implementation?

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    Comment #48369803

    Quick question, I assume you're getting caught by the CGEvent(PostEvent)...but I want to be sure. AX API has been gimped for over a decade so you'd have never made it into the app …

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    Comment #48366021

    I'd be interested to hear which sequence of tokens triggered your "robot authored" pattern match? You may want to tune the mechanism.

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    Comment #48361861

    I agree. Learning to code from scratch today would be difficult to say the least. The scar tissue accrued from debugging a compilable typo, a misplaced comma or parenthesis teaches…

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