Subject: Re: bug#18759: 24.3.94; Yank from clipboard crashes

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 10:17:15 +0300

> From: Donald Tillman <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:18:24 -0700
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> > 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.