Sometimes I enjoy simply looking at a pages source code, OK, I'm not usually doing it for real fun. Anyway, I think copying text from there might avoid at least some of those (html) formatting problems. They should be easier to see, anyway. :-)
On Jan 15, 2009, at 9:25 AM, Jon wrote: > Every now and then I copy some sample code (e.g. JavaScript) from a > web page (not from the source) and paste it into a BBEdit document. If > I copy from Safari (which I use most of the time), and the sample code > contains non-breakable space ( ), I easily don't notice those > invisible characters, but they may cause my code to fail mysteriously, > and I often waste too much time debugging. I know that BBEdit has this > option on the Edit->Text Options to "Show invisibles", but I think it > would have been useful if I could get a warning every time I pasted > text containing invisible non-ASCII characters ... > (I've experienced that the Opera browser fails if JavaScript code > contains non-breakable space.) OTOH, I'm all for somebody else doing more work for me! ;-) And there may even already be a way for BBEdit to do this! :-) Jim Chaffin [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
