Two text editing questions
Bert Freudenberg
bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Mon May 7 18:43:00 UTC 2001
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Dan Ingalls wrote:
> >4. On my UNIX box, when I edit a method and Alt-s save it, I sometimes
> > get a walkback because the scanner KNOWS there can't possibly be any
> > NUL (ASCII 0) characters in the method text, but there is one! Funny
> > thing is that I don't type ctrl-space or ctrl-@ or anything else that
> > should be inserting a NUL. Typically the NUL is the very first
> > character.
> >
> > Why does this happen and how do I stop it?
>
> I hope someone else has an answer for you. I've never seen this, but
> I've never run Squeak on UNIX.
I've often run Squeak on UNIX (actually, most often Linux, occasionally
Irix/Solaris ;-) but never had this happen. I sometimes had the compiler
complaining when an invisible hi-ascii character slipped in, but no
walkback.
-- Bert
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