Re: [MacPerl] bug?

[Richard Cook <rscook@socrates.berkeley.edu>]

Bart Lateur wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 17:36:30 -0500, Chris Nandor wrote:
> 
> > thing is printed
> >>> > > to STDOUT all looks fine, but the copied line
> >>> > >
> >>> > > \xDB\xAA\t\n
> >>> > >
> >>> > > pastes as
> >>> > >
> >>> > > \xDB\xAA\n\n
> >>> > >
> >>> > > where \n is mac CR. any idea what's up??? if instead i print OF to HD,
> >>> > > it prints
> >>> > >
> >>> > > \xDB\xAA\t\n
> >>> > >
> >>> > > just as it should.
> 
> >I am not sure what the bug is here.  What is this about "paste" and "copy"?
> 
> I think I do have a clue what this person is talking about. I, too, have
> occasionally noticed that if you copy text from MacPerl's output window,
> and paste it into a text editor, you may paste some slightly different
> text than what's been printed out. Er... I'm not sure I can think of an
> example. Let's try:
> 
>         ($\, $,) = ("\n", "\t");
>         for(32..126) {
>             print $_, chr;
>         }
> 
> This should print a character table, for each character first the Ascii
> code, then a tab, then the character, then a newline. But if you
> copy/paste the text, the line for space (Ascii code 32) isn't
> copied/pasted exactly. Er... yes: I get "32\n \n".
> 
> Yup, it is a bug. I'm not sure I really think it's that important... ;-)
> 

Thanks Bart,
Yes. This is just what I was talking about.

It's important only sometimes, most when I use regex to search a text
file, copy the results and paste into a text editor's find window (to
edit the file): the find fails.

Not important really, but sometimes a minor annoyance. I'd be curious to
know the cause.

-R

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