[PD] Pd 0.52 test 2 is out

Christof Ressi info at christofressi.com
Tue Nov 23 21:58:17 CET 2021


> It seems we need to force add "\" like symbol boxes do in these cases 
This would also be possible. Probably better than silently bashing to 
individual symbols.
> (but not on adding a space, cause we usually want spaces in the list 
> box).

We can't really automatically escape them anyway because the unescaped 
and escaped white space have different meanings.

On 23.11.2021 21:36, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
> Em ter., 23 de nov. de 2021 às 14:59, Christof Ressi 
> <info at christofressi.com> escreveu:
>
>>     - if I type "hi, there" in a list box I get an unescaped (and
>>     seemingly ilegal) "," symbol.
>
>     Generally, list atoms contain FUDI strings and colons, semicolons
>     and dollars have special meanings. You have to escape them
>     explicitly if you want them to part of a symbol.
>
>     "foo,bar" -> 3 atoms
>
>     "foo\,bar" -> 1 symbol atom
>
>     However, you're right that the list atom forgets to bash those
>     special to symbols, so you end up with A_SEMI, A_COMMA, A_DOLLAR
>     and A_DOLLSYM atoms on the patch level - which is bad!
>
> It seems we need to force add "\" like symbol boxes do in these cases 
> (but not on adding a space, cause we usually want spaces in the list 
> box).
>
> In parallel, there's the idea to hide this force adding "\" visually 
> on the boxes, but this can be taken care further in both cases of 
> list/symbol boxes.
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