[TxMt] Re: strange behaviour with linefeeds/spaces/carriage returns

[Sam Aaron]

Interestingly, in Mail, the editor window presented this crazy  
character as a space, but the window that lets you read sent items  
showed it as a carriage return.

Confusing :-)

On 20 Nov 2006, at 12.43 pm, Sam Aaron wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I had this hideous bug in on of my rjs templates. The bug was in  
> this line:
>
> page[:login].visual_effect
> :blind_down
>
> now, most of you (who know rjs) will think that's a perfectly good  
> line. However, there is a bug in it. That line gets converted to  
> this javascript:
>
> $("login").visualEffect
> ("blind_down");
>
> It turns out that the character between the .visual_effect and  
> the :blind_down is *not* a standard space. It's some sort of  
> carriage return/line feed which is displayed as a space in TextMate  
> (and Mail it seems too).
>
> Now, not wanting to spark up any editor wars or anything, but  
> BBEdit displays the lines like this:
>
> page[:login].visual_effect
> :blind_down
>
> $("login").visualEffect
> ("blind_down");
>
> so it's now obvious where the bug is... and why my div wasn't  
> blinding down ;-)
>
> Is there any way I can get TextMate to alert me to the fact that  
> this character *isn't* a space? And therefore stop this hair- 
> pulling bug from happening again :-)
>
> SAm