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bug#18759: 24.3.94; Yank from clipboard crashes


From: Alexis
Subject: bug#18759: 24.3.94; Yank from clipboard crashes
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 18:27:58 +1100

Eli Zaretskii writes:

>> From: Donald Tillman <don@till.com>
>> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:18:24 -0700
>> Cc: 18759@debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>> > What is a "shift-return character"?  Can you tell its Unicode
>> > codepoint?
>> > 
>> > Also, can you run under GDB and show the backtrace from the crash?
>> 
>> 
>> (Wow, that's fast!)
>> 
>> Sorry, I'm not set up for gdb right now.
>> 
>> It's also called a Soft Return.  If you are typing out text in Pages, the 
>> return key starts a new paragraph.  But typing shift-return starts a new 
>> line without starting a new paragraph.  The classic case is typing a postal 
>> address; you want to start new lines without creating new paragraphs.  
>> 
>> If you select a region that includes a soft return, Pages displays it as a 
>> little blue return arrow icon. 
>
> If you cannot describe what that soft return causes to be sent to
> Emacs when you paste, I guess someone with access to a Darwin system
> will have to debug this.

i think this 'soft return' might be '\v' / ASCII code 11, 'vertical tab'
/ Unicode 0x000B, 'LINE TABULATION' .... But i'm not on a Darwin system,
myself.


Alexis.





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