I have done exactly the same thing several times where my past self has been the only one asking exactly the question I need. But this is not limited to LiveCode forums. Yesterday I was scratching my head regarding a regex pattern. I was overjoyed when I found someone asking precisely the question I needed around 2 years back on StackExchange. It was my former self!
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60025513/regex-to-extract-lookbehind-and-lookahead-from-a-regex-pattern On Wed, 22 Dec 2021 at 17:42, Martin Koob via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Hi all > > I have been reading Alex Hughson’s thread "New user” renamed "Serial > Communication with an I/O board (New user)” by Curry Kenworthy to make it > easier for future users to find. > > It makes me think of something that happened a few times with me. I am > trying to do something in LiveCode and I come up against a blocker. I > start searching the use-livecode list, the LiveCode Forums, and also > general web searches. Finally I find my answer — exactly what I wanted. > Then I look at the author asking the original question or answering… > Martin Koob. > 🤦🏻♂️😳 > > So I am curious — am I the only one whose mind is going or have others run > this mental recursive documentation loop? > > Anyway now when I am typing a question or a suggested answer I think I > should put the salutation “Dear Future me.”. In any case once the problem > is solved I do a final email summarizing what the final solution was and I > do make sure there are some good keywords in the text that I would probably > search for in the future when I have forgotten ever even working on this > problem this let alone how to solve it. > > Martin Koob > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- Kaveh Bazargan PhD Director River Valley Technologies <http://rivervalley.io> ● Twitter <https://twitter.com/rivervalley1000> ● LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/bazargankaveh/> ● ORCID <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1414-9098> *Accelerating the Communication of Research* _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode