Hi all
Is there a reason why symbol atoms add a backslash in front of spaces? Why is the display showing the escape mechanism?
Roman
Em seg., 25 de jan. de 2021 às 17:47, Roman Haefeli reduzent@gmail.com escreveu:
I think it got introduced in 0.51, btw.
but the escape mechanism was always there, I can see it in Pd Extended 0.42 that it escapes $0, I guess it got "fixed" and expanded to all cases recently.
Is there a reason why symbol atoms add a backslash in front of
spaces?
I see that it doesn't make much sense in a symbol box, where everything is a symbol.
I once opened an issue because I was hoping I could type an unescaped "$0-x" symbol inside a symbol box, so it could come out as an expanded symbol. One could be able to explicitly type the escape character if wanted. Anyway, just bringing that also to the table.
The display of the escaping backslash is certainly a bug... I thought there already was a bug report. If not, would you file one? ;-)
On 25.01.2021 22:43, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
Em seg., 25 de jan. de 2021 às 17:47, Roman Haefeli <reduzent@gmail.com mailto:reduzent@gmail.com> escreveu:
I think it got introduced in 0.51, btw.
but the escape mechanism was always there, I can see it in Pd Extended 0.42 that it escapes $0, I guess it got "fixed" and expanded to all cases recently.
> Is there a reason why symbol atoms add a backslash in front of > spaces?
I see that it doesn't make much sense in a symbol box, where everything is a symbol.
I once opened an issue because I was hoping I could type an unescaped "$0-x" symbol inside a symbol box, so it could come out as an expanded symbol. One could be able to explicitly type the escape character if wanted. Anyway, just bringing that also to the table.
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On 1/25/21 11:20 PM, Christof Ressi wrote:
The display of the escaping backslash is certainly a bug... I thought there already was a bug report. If not, would you file one? ;-)
you mean https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/824?
the discussion relevant to this topic seems to be at the very end of the issue:
@millerpuckette wrote:
@umlaeute wrote:
@millerpuckette hmm well, this will still put a backslash before every space in symbolbox, messageboxes and printouts. [...] This is better than before (where \ would accumulate backslashes whenever a new symbol was being generated), but still a regression, as right before 2c17432 they all printed nicely.
I think the previous behavior was wrong and this is a bug fix.
mfstd IOhannes
On Tue, 2021-01-26 at 00:03 +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
On 1/25/21 11:20 PM, Christof Ressi wrote:
The display of the escaping backslash is certainly a bug... I thought there already was a bug report. If not, would you file one? ;-)
Thanks for the pointer.
Roman