[PD] Feature Proposal

[Jonathan Wilkes]

> On Monday, August 22, 2016 7:14 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig 

> <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:
> On 08/22/2016 10:27 PM, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote:
>> break anything for sure.
>> Also, the curly-bracket filter

>> would need to be removed from the key eventhandler in g_editor.c. 

> Plus>> any other places in m_binbuf.c or other places where curlies are filtered.

> exactly, that's the idea.
> because they are forbidden now, they can be used for new features.


Yes.

>> They would break the inter-process message parser.


> how so?

line 15 of pd_connect.tcl (in pd-0.46-7):
# TODO figure out how to escape { } properly

> it's not like every tcl/tk application prevents the use of {\}.

> (there's obviously a reason why Pd does forbid it; however, i doubt 

> that > the unerlying problem cannot be solved)


I obviously agree.  The motto of Purr Data could probably be, 

"I doubt underlying problems cannot be solved."


-Jonathan

> gfadrs
> IOhannes


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