Lock screen challenge
J. Landman Gay
jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Mon Nov 21 16:24:15 EST 2022
I'm updating a very old set of stacks that use old HC syntax for "lock screen". A search with
LC's Find utility says there are 723 instances that may need to be changed. Right now they look
like this:
lock screen
-- do any number of things
unlock screen with <effect>
These all need to be changed to:
lock screen for visual effect
-- do any number of things
unlock screen with visual effect <effect>
The challenge is that not all "lock screen" commands use a visual effect, some are simple
lock/unlock pairs. I need to automate this. The visual effects are not all the same. Some
handlers have multiple instances of locking the screen with or without a visual effect.
I'd use a regex if I could, but back references aren't supported (or are they now?) I really
don't want to do this manually.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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