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*
