Re: [MacPerl] bug?

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 05:29:25PM -0800, Richard Cook wrote:
> Bart Lateur wrote:
> > 
> > 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.

The MacPerl output window just doesn't handle tabs properly.  It's also
annoying when you're trying to produce tabbed output and the columns don't
line up because all the tabs come out as spaces.

Ronald

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