[PD] Hide backslash escapes in symbol atoms

Antoine Rousseau antoine at metalu.net
Fri Nov 19 12:20:52 CET 2021


>
> what's a "numeric character"?
>

I guess [0123456789.e] ?



Le ven. 19 nov. 2021 à 11:51, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> a
écrit :

>
> On 11/19/21 10:02, Antoine Rousseau wrote:
> > - in a float atom, no space at all is allowed... (BTW wouldn't it be a
> nice
> > addition to filter the keyboard input to only numeric characters in the
> > "number" context?...)
>
> what's a "numeric character"?
>
>  > - in a list atom, space is the delimiter, so if you want an actual
>  > space it has to be escaped;
>
> i'm not really sure about this to be honest.
> i agree that there should be a visual distinction between the atom
> delimiter and the sapce (within a symbol).
>
> intuitively i would prefer something less ugly than '\ ', e.g. "␣".
> but what if the user actually wants the character "␣"?
>
> probably the best would be to have delimiters a display property of the
> list-box, rather than of the text itself.
> as in the attached mockup.
>
> dmgfsr
> IOhannes
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