It is quite literally a horizontal line drawn to represent an anchor in editmode that you can click and drag to change the width of the comment.  It certainly does look exactly like a pipe character, is confusing, and has no relationship with any of the widget behaviors of modern gui toolkits.

It could also just as easily be a dashed box around the comment, which would be less confusing, more obvious, and have no significant performance hit over a vertical line.

-Jonathan

On Thursday, January 23, 2014 3:45 PM, Peter P. p8rpp@aol.com wrote:

Hi, I am on Pd-0.45.0 vanilla compiled from Miller's git sources on Linux with Tcl/Tk 8.5.0-2.1

When I insert a comment into a patch, there is always a trailing | (pipe) character (perhaps some sort of a cursor), that remains visible, also after clicking on the canvas background to end editing the comment. Upon file save, close, and re-open the | is gone, until I enter Edit mode.

Does anyone else experience this?

best, P

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