[TxMt] Re: can TextMate (ruby) lose its mind?

[Alex Ross]

On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:06 AM, Matt Neuburg wrote:

> This really just happened to me. Really. I know I produced some  
> April Fools
> jokes yesterday, but that was yesterday. This is real.
>
> I created this Ruby script in TextMate:
>
> s = "wackamole"
> puts s
>
> I ran it, and the RubyMate output window displayed:
>
> woe
>
> Weird, eh? And it is part of a longer story; the string "wag wag"  
> was being
> displayed as "w w", and the string "ruff ruff" was being displayed  
> as empty.
> (Never mind why I was testing those strings.)
>
> I quit TextMate, restarted my computer, and everything is back to  
> normal.
> But would anyone like to suggest a cause for what happened? Cosmic  
> rays?
> Belated April Fools day easter-egg-type joke?? The conficker  
> virus??? Has
> anyone else ever seen anything like this? m.

It could have been a WebKit bug… WebKit is used to render the html  
output window, and it has been known to behave strangely from time to  
time.  Another possibility is that your font caches had become  
corrupted.  Either of these problem could have been corrected be a  
reboot.