On 18 Sep 2014, at 10:46, Etienne Samson wrote:
I have both the ISO and ANSI US/international keyboard, and I can type all of the following quotes without using dead keys: ‘…’, “…”, "…", '…', and `…`.
I can confirm that this also happens with the standard French layout with the ` backtick, the selected text just disappear. As the OP says, not a really harmful, significant bug, I just want to confirm that there's an issue.
Well, I can certainly reproduce it. What I didn’t understand is how the OP couldn’t type the above quotes on a US keyboard without using dead keys.
A quick fix (IMHO, I'm no expert on the text system) would be to make dead keys be handled as normal keys as soon as you have something selected […]
TextMate doesn’t know as much as you here. The input system is abstracted to support many different input modes. This is the protocol currently used to talk to TextMate: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/cocoa/reference/applic...
As you can see, there is no “here is a dead key that looks like a quote” but rather methods like -setMarkedText:selectedRange:.