GNU bug report logs - #18759
[macOS] Display of #x2028 (LINE SEPARATOR) crashes with (set-default-font "-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--10-100-72-72-m-100-mac-roman")

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Donald Tillman <don <at> till.com>

Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 04:27:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3.94

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Donald Tillman <don <at> till.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 18759 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18759: 24.3.94; Yank from clipboard crashes
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 14:50:55 +0200

Hello.

18 okt 2014 kl. 08:18 skrev Donald Tillman <don <at> till.com>:

> 
> On Oct 17, 2014, at 10:53 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>>> From: Donald Tillman <don <at> till.com>
>>> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 21:25:47 -0700
>>> 
>>> Use command-C to copy text from a Pages document, and then yank it into
>>> an Emacs buffer with C-y.
>>> 
>>> Normally this works fine.  But if the Pages text content includes a
>>> shift-return character then the yank crashes Emacs.
>> 
>> 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.
> 

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