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