Aaron Gray <angray at beeb.net> wrote:
> Thats the one, nasty, right, thanks for that, I will endevour 
> not to do 
> that, but don't you mean <shift><insert> rather than <shift><del> ?
> 
> <shift><insert> is as you say inserting a hidden character.

Arg, yes, you're right.

> Thanks, has this been reported ?

I've not seen a report of it, but that's not saying much.

Lex wrote:

> It would be easier to understand what is going on, if these nonsense
> characters were to show up as something visible.  I like what some
> Windows editors do, where they insert a little square.  But any visible
> glyph is better than 1 pixel of empty space.

I agree. While I'd like to insert text using the <ctrl><ins>/<shift><del>/<shift><ins> combos, that's a different issue. In general, I think we should print SOMETHING instead of an invisible character.

I do wonder though about characters like Unicode's zero-width non-breaking space. You're not supposed to see it in the first place, but it's there, and likely the compiler (rightly) won't appreciate it. (AFAIK we're not in UnicodeLand quite yet, but I guess we will with the whole m17n business?)

frank


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