> > It was a CTRL-X
The context was pair-programming (we were using Honoré's Mac). I'm not much of a Mac user anymore, and so on Windows I do CTRL-X to cut (it's a reflex). But on a Mac one must use the Command key, right? I think this is how it happened, but I'm not 100% sure. On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 at 16:13, Christopher Fuhrman < christopher.fuhr...@etsmtl.ca> wrote: > Honoré and I had a debugging session during my sabbatical that was 2+ > hours because of a frustrating hidden character that got inserted in a > string that was executed in a Shell command. It was not possible to see it > in the Pharo editor. > > It was a CTRL-X at some point, here's the commit where I removed it: > https://github.com/fuhrmanator/GitMiner/commit/0b1e564ba2c25fb9cf7dfa925b06367f66a02b9b > > On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 at 15:49, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.duca...@inria.fr> > wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I have the impression that we can introduce hidden characters >> while typing code and this is a problem to me because we do not see them >> :) >> I got for example selhiddenf and it can lead to strange situations. >> >> I will try to chase the key combinations that produce them and see how we >> can control and avoid this situation. >> If you find the key combination please let me know. >> >> S. >> -------------------------------------------- >> Stéphane Ducasse >> http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr / http://www.pharo.org >> 03 59 35 87 52 >> Assistant: Julie Jonas >> FAX 03 59 57 78 50 >> TEL 03 59 35 86 16 >> S. Ducasse - Inria >> 40, avenue Halley, >> Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza >> Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 >> France >> >> > > -- > Christopher Fuhrman, P.Eng., PhD > > *Professeur au Département de génie logiciel et des technologies de > l'informationÉTS (École de technologie supérieure)* > > http://profs.etsmtl.ca/cfuhrman > +1 514 396 8638 > *L'ÉTS est une constituante de l'Université du Québec* > -- Christopher Fuhrman, P.Eng., PhD *Professeur au Département de génie logiciel et des technologies de l'informationÉTS (École de technologie supérieure)* http://profs.etsmtl.ca/cfuhrman +1 514 396 8638 *L'ÉTS est une constituante de l'Université du Québec*
