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<blockquote type="cite">intuitively i would prefer something less
ugly than '\ ', e.g. "␣".
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As I've written elsewhere: as simple rule could be "show what you
type". In a list box (and many other objects) you have to
explicitly type '\' to get a whitespace inside a symbol, so I
think it's also fine to display it as such.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">probably the best would be to have
delimiters a display property of the list-box, rather than of
the text itself.
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But what about object boxes, comments, [text] etc.? They all
follow the same rules regarding whitespace (the user has to
explicitly escape it).</p>
<p>The only exception are cases where you are dealing with a single
symbol: symbol atoms and since Pd 0.52 also all GUI object lables
resp. send/receive symbols. Here it doesn't make sense to show the
escape character as it is really an implementation detail and
doesn't add any value to the end user. It just looks ugly.<br>
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<p>Christof<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 19.11.2021 11:51, IOhannes m
zmoelnig wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:607d4fcb-8872-5df6-a905-5d5fbefcd852@iem.at">
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On 11/19/21 10:02, Antoine Rousseau wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">- in a float atom, no space at all is
allowed... (BTW wouldn't it be a nice
<br>
addition to filter the keyboard input to only numeric characters
in the
<br>
"number" context?...)
<br>
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what's a "numeric character"?
<br>
<br>
> - in a list atom, space is the delimiter, so if you want an
actual
<br>
> space it has to be escaped;
<br>
<br>
i'm not really sure about this to be honest.
<br>
i agree that there should be a visual distinction between the atom
delimiter and the sapce (within a symbol).
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intuitively i would prefer something less ugly than '\ ', e.g.
"␣".
<br>
but what if the user actually wants the character "␣"?
<br>
<br>
probably the best would be to have delimiters a display property
of the list-box, rather than of the text itself.
<br>
as in the attached mockup.
<br>
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dmgfsr
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IOhannes
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