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Re: IDL Workbench Nits [message #57972]

Thu, 10 January 2008 12:57

Bob[3]
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On Jan 10, 3:43 pm, Abraham campbell <abra...@ittvis.com> wrote:
> There is a difference between multi-line paste and single-line paste.
> When you paste multiple lines into the command line window, it
> immediately executes each line, one at a time, without displaying the
> lines in the command line, and without you being able to modify the
> command before it's executed. (NOTE: The last line of a multi-line
> paste is also executed immediately.) However, with a single-line paste,
> the command is left in the command line window, and not immediately
> executed, so that you can modify it before executing it.
>
> What you might be running into is the case where you have a single
> statement, but you have also copied a newline character at the end of
> the statement. When you paste this into the command line, it will
> behave like a multi-line paste and immediately execute the (single)
> command and not give you a chance to edit the command before execution.
>
> The presence of a carriage return/newline character anywhere in the
> pasted text determines the difference between multi-line and single-line
> paste behavior.
>
> Abraham- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

If that is the case, then the copy/paste behaviour could be made more
intuitive/consistent if when there is only one carriage return/newline
character in the text (ie it's a single-line paste that just happens
to have a newline at the end) it gets stripped off before pasting.

Bob.

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		Re: IDL Workbench Nits By: Bob[3] on Thu, 10 January 2008 12:57
		Re: IDL Workbench Nits By: Abraham campbell on Thu, 10 January 2008 12:43
		Re: IDL Workbench Nits By: Doug Edmundson on Thu, 10 January 2008 09:25
		Re: IDL Workbench Nits By: Doug Edmundson on Thu, 10 January 2008 09:09
		Re: IDL Workbench Nits By: David Fanning on Thu, 10 January 2008 08:19
		Re: IDL Workbench Nits By: David Fanning on Thu, 10 January 2008 08:11
		Re: IDL Workbench Nits By: Ryan. on Thu, 10 January 2008 07:43
		Re: IDL Workbench Nits By: David Fanning on Thu, 10 January 2008 06:27
		Re: IDL Workbench Nits By: Ryan. on Thu, 10 January 2008 06:19
		Re: IDL Workbench Nits By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 10 January 2008 13:45

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