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

From: Jan Djärv <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 14:50:55 +0200

Hello.

18 okt 2014 kl. 08:18 skrev Donald Tillman <[email-masked]>:

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> On Oct 17, 2014, at 10:53 PM, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:
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>>> From: Donald Tillman <[email-masked]>
>>> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 21:25:47 -0700
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>>> Use command-C to copy text from a Pages document, and then yank it into
>>> an Emacs buffer with C-y.
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>>> Normally this works fine.  But if the Pages text content includes a
>>> shift-return character then the yank crashes Emacs.
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>> What is a "shift-return character"?  Can you tell its Unicode
>> codepoint?
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>> Also, can you run under GDB and show the backtrace from the crash?
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> (Wow, that's fast!)
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> Sorry, I'm not set up for gdb right now.
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Don't you get a crash window?
Did you compile Emacs yourself, or did you get it from somewhere?

	Jan D.

> 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.  
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> If you select a region that includes a soft return, Pages displays it as a little blue return arrow icon. 
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> Checking...
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> The same thing happens with soft returns in Keynote.
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> TextEdit doesn't seem to do soft returns.
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>  -- Don
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> Don Tillman
> Palo Alto, California
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> http://www.till.com
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